Boris Johnson vows action over ‘desperate’ migrant crossings

A group of people thought to be migrants wave as they are brought into Dover, Kent, on the RNLI Fraser Flyer Lifeboat following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture: PA

The UK is a “target and magnet” for people traffickers, Boris Johnson has said, as migrant crossings continue.

The British Prime Minister says he has “a great deal of sympathy” for parents so desperate that they are putting their children in dinghies and even paddling pools to cross the Channel.