this group made it into the uk in a small boat. on tuesday, downing street said it was working on the implementation of the deal with france. we also heard this from the prime minister. my right honourable friend, the home secretary, is dealing with it in the best possible way, which is to make sure that they don't leave those french shores. we depend to a large extent on what the french are doing, but clearly, as time goes on and this problem continues, we are going to have to make sure that we use every possible tactic at our disposal. so that was tuesday. on wednesday, priti patel held crisis talks with her french counterpart over the issue. that ended in stalemate. evidently, the two sides see this issue quite differently. for example, a french interior ministry source has told the guardian "there had "never been any question of making payment conditional on numerical targets. "such an approach would reflect a serious loss of confidence in our cooperation." and here's the french calais mp.