Channel Under Siege: Burnham and Macron Deploy Surge Teams as Mega-Dinghies Reshape the Smuggling War

Andy Burnham hosted Emmanuel Macron at Downing Street on Wednesday in his first bilateral with a foreign head of state — and immigration was the centrepiece. The two leaders announced a new French "surge team" of 45 police officers deployed to Normandy beaches to intercept small boats, part of an expanded effort to combat people smugglers who have shifted operations south from Calais and Dunkirk. The number of officers patrolling the French coast has been increased, with...