Migrants

John Ray Correspondent

The vessel ITV News is tracking is still outside EU waters. Under a deal with Turkey, it should be seized and turned round.

For the last three days, ITV News cameras have captured extraordinary scenes as boat after overpacked boat heads for Britain.

The number of migrants taken in by UK authorities so far this year is thought to have already passed 1,000.

Families including young children are facing an uncertain future due to the planned demolition of a migrant camp in Dunkirk.

Border Force was alerted to several small boats travelling across the Channel on Tuesday, the Home Office said.

Vessels from Border Force were on the scene on Saturday morning.

Boris Johnson made the comments after nearly 100 people tried to cross the English Channel from France in one day.

Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has barred all private rescue ships from entering Italian ports.

The migrants are believed to have fled Libya and the incident follows the bombing of a migrant centre there.

More alarmingly, it has now emerged that current border agents are members of a private Facebook group that is engaged in racist threats.