Chris Philp

This should also be a wake-up call for the government because it's not just those protesters in Dover and Portsmouth who feel so angry about large-scale illegal immigration. It is millions and millions of people up and down this country…

This lawless gang chaos should never have been allowed to take root in the first place.

The surest way to empty the accommodation is to make plain that nobody who crosses the Channel gets to stay.

Labour is moving illegal immigrants out of hotels and into flats in your building.

The only way we can stop the crossings is by having a proper deterrent.

Too many communities are failing to properly integrate and become part of our culture, leaving frankly backwards standards to prevail.

Instead of trying to train these mainly young, male illegal immigrants behave in a civilised way towards women, they should be deported.

Three thousand have entered our country in the first 22 days of Andy Burnham’s premiership, that is more … than any other prime minister has seen in their first 22 days.

Despite our warnings in Parliament, they initially planned to release rapists and dangerous criminals.

The Labour government has made mistake after mistake on this early release scheme.

This the most important decision Andy Burnham has made since he became prime minister and he's got it wrong.

Illegal working is booming because Labour have turned Britain into a soft touch.

I am afraid as usual is on the back of a fag packet.

We have not seen enough action being taken and so the Conservatives would return to the home secretary the power to set operational guidance and codes of practice.

These are the basics the public expect.

The public expects clear evidence to always be followed up.

I don't buy the line from the French that this was routine training. It felt intimidatory and like it was done to stop us following what was happening in the Channel. It felt like a warning.

I am planning on contacting the French ambassador by next Monday to ask why 17 rounds were fired so close to our boat.

They started firing at the closest point to us on their course, right in the middle of the TV interview, which they would have seen happening. It felt to me like an attempted intimidation to stop us covering the migrant crossings.

On the channel today monitoring illegal migrant crossings … as I was being interviewed by the BBC just now a French warship approached close and fired 17 live rounds behind us. There was no notice or training exercise in place. Felt like…

There were no warnings in place about live firing training exercises. They fired the live rounds at the closest point of approach to us - and didn’t fire anything that we saw before or after.

The French warship fired 17 live rounds behind us as it was at its closest point to us. There was no warning at all. It felt like these were warning shots and our skipper told me he had never seen anything like this in years sailing in the…

If France showed people smugglers half the seriousness they showed me, the boats would stop.

It is extraordinary that the French Navy will fire live rounds to defend their waters against a visiting British politician but cannot bear to do anything about stopping illegal Channel crossings.