There will be more tragedies in the Channel and more and more hotels will fill up unless the Government acts immediately.

As I have argued consistently: Every migrant entering the country illegally via the Channel must be arrested, charged with illegal entry, and detained. After sentence and before being released, they must be deported, off-shored, or return to their own country.

The European Convention of Human Rights and the Refugee Convention are over seventy years old and were never designed to meet this sort of crisis. A sovereign state has a right to control its borders. We must issue a temporary derogation from these conventions until the crisis stops, or else we will have to leave them altogether.

This is a deadly trade and it must be stopped. No one will pay people smugglers thousands of pounds just to be detained and deported. Measures such as using military bases, barges, or student hostels are no deterrent whatsoever.

It is ludicrous and bizarre that Border Force acts as a taxi service once people are halfway across the Channel. Almost no one is deported.

The Government must take immediate action to fulfil numerous pledges and take real steps to cut legal migration. We can start by insisting no one is allowed to take up a job here if the salary is less than the average national wage of £33,000 per year.

We cannot allow employers to go on undercutting British workers, letting them import cheap foreign labour instead of paying a decent salary. Voters want action and our credibility is at stake.