GETTY Masked gangs are regularly breaking in to trucks and lorries heading for the UK

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Today we report from France where masked gangs are regularly breaking in to trucks and lorries heading for the UK, which have stopped at a motorway service station near Dunkirk and Calais. The long overdue destruction of the Calais “Jungle” camp last year was hailed as a means of ending the migrant crisis but this newspaper’s investigation makes it clear that the hordes who are intent on coming to Britain have dispersed to an extent but have not really gone away.

The French authorities have not made sufficient efforts to end the epidemic of human trafficking which is leading to violence on a daily basis. The desperation of the migrants who are intent on coming to Britain by any means is matched by the unscrupulousness and viciousness of the gangs of people smugglers. Wearing hoods they lurk at the side of the road waiting for trucks to leave the motorway.

GETTY The destruction of the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp was hailed as a means of ending the migrant crisis

Calais Jungle Camp: Before and After Fri, November 11, 2016 Extraordinary photographs show life in the last days of the Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp at the end of October, alongside the current scene as it stands today. Play slideshow 1 of 24

This will be the third summer plagued by chaos on the roads outside Calais. Migrants are returning to the areas in ever increasing numbers. While France has a part to play Britain must also do more to ensure that weak borders are not an invitation to desperate migrants and wicked traffickers. Only if the borders are strong will they be deterred. ——————————————

GETTY Jean-Claude Juncker claims Brussels will approach Brexit negotiations in a friendly way

Juncker’s punishment The European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker says that Brussels will approach the negotiation for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU (which he persists in calling “a failure and a tragedy”) in a friendly way. But that bill for £50billion? That still has to be paid he insists even though he doesn’t want anyone to think it’s some sort of “punishment”. Well, if that’s what he calls friendly then one wouldn’t care to see him when he was being actively hostile. This ludicrous, made-up figure of £50billion has been bounced around for months. Britain has absolutely no obligation to stump up this kind of payment and would be perfectly in its rights to demand payment from Brussels instead to reflect our vast contribution to the EU’s assets and coffers. ——————————————

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