Mayors in northern France are calling for the deal that allows Britain to carry out immigration checks in Calais to be scrapped.

A group of French mayors wants to rip up the Channel migrant deal with the UK and end British immigration checks at Calais. They are demanding an end to the long-standing Le Touquet agreement and are blaming the UK's "flawed asylum system" for the ongoing migrant crisis.

The group of northern French mayors are calling for Border Force officers to be sent back to the UK From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.