Manston numbers back below 1,600 says Home Office minister

The French have stopped 29,000 illegal migrant crossings this year, Robert Jenrick tells MPs.

And the immigration minister said the number of people at the Manston asylum processing centre in Kent was "back below 1,600” on Monday morning, describing that as a “significant reduction” in a week.

No simple solutions on Channel crossings, Rishi Sunak says