WE would love to share the Government’s optimism that its new £63million bung to France will slash the migrants landing illegally on our shores. But we can’t.
The success or failure of those new cops, drones and intel will be very obvious, very soon.
But we suspect the sole winner will be President Macron, not only thanks to the millions we are paying but because he can pause this co-operation any time Britain annoys him.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman says the small-boats problem has “no silver bullet”. That is because we are trying to fix it with both arms tied.
We will not override the ECHR and Human Rights Act which prevent us flying migrants to Rwanda or a British territory for offshore processing.