Damien

There are benefits in France too. Their reasoning for coming here seems to be a mix of a incorrect perception of the scale of the benefits, the language and generally a quite tolerant society.

We have to think carefully how to solve this problem. We need to work with the French but ideally we need to deal with the problem at source. I mean it's all very well building more fencing but then they'll just walk further and camp nearer. If we build a fence all around France they'll camp outside France. The worst case scenario is that the French tell us to take our border back to Dover and we can't process security on the French side.