Alex Norris: “Offenders should carry the consequences of their crimes, not their victims.”

Our plan will make sure this never happens again by building 14,000 prison places while subjecting offenders to the toughest-ever controls, leaving them nowhere to hide and under no doubt that we are watching them.

It's a very visible reminder, both of the dangerous nature of those crossings, also of the blind indifference that human traffickers have for life on those boats... I'm pleased with the work that we're doing with France. That's reduced…

If we drew it any wider we would have a prison capacity crisis.

I wouldn't link the two.