Over 50 Tory MPs urge PM Sunak to ease migrant crisis

Over 50 Tory MPs urge PM Sunak to ease migrant crisis

Over 50 Tory MPs have urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to change the law to ease the migrant crisis and send some home more quickly.

Brexit secretary David Davis, in a letter, demanded those travelling from “safe countries”, such as Albania, be returned more quickly.

According to figures from last week, more than 40,000 migrants have crossed in small boats from France so far this year.

Tory backbenchers including Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, describe the crossings as a “Gordian Knot that needs cutting with a simple policy”.