Cameron and Hollande meet as critics slam 'sticking plaster' Calais measures

British Prim Minister David Cameron has called the President of France Francois Hollande to discuss the crisis at the port of Calais, which he has warned he expects to last all summer.

Cameron and Hollande meet as critics slam 'sticking plaster' Calais measures

British Prim Minister David Cameron has called the President of France Francois Hollande to discuss the crisis at the port of Calais, which he has warned he expects to last all summer.

After chairing a meeting of the British Government’s emergency Cobra committee in Whitehall, Mr Cameron branded scenes of migrants breaking through fences and hanging onto lorries as they try to enter the Channel Tunnel “unacceptable” and declared: “We are absolutely on it. We know it needs more work.”

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