The home secretary has acknowledged 80,000 people could cross the channel on small boats this year.

Suella Braverman was defending new proposals for anyone found to have entered the UK illegally to be removed from the country within 28 days, but also be blocked from returning or claiming British citizenship in future.

The United Nations Refugee Agency has accused the government of violating the Refugee Convention introduced after the Second World War through its proposals to tackle small boats.

The BBC’s Nick Robinson spoke to the home secretary and then to Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford.

(Image, Migrants disembark border vessel, Credit, Gareth Fuller PA)