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

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.

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

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

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