There are several elements to the deal and I think it represents a positive next step to our collaboration with the French.

The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman there, cheering her new deal that will see joint Anglo-French surveillance of the channel beefed up or perhaps boofed up.

And not a moment too soon.

British officers working on French soil, more French police patrolling the beaches,

closer collaboration and intelligence sharing, but no immediate solution.

More than 40,000 have made it across the channel this year so far.

That's up from almost 29,000 in 2021.

And despite the warmest November day ever being recorded this month,

those making the journey in small boats are still taking their lives in their hands.

We may no longer be hearing talk of invasion on our coasts,

but the government's rhetoric remains focused on the legality or otherwise

of those who come here without the appropriate visa.

There are some people like the Hong Kongers, like the Ukrainians, like the Afghans,

who are fleeing war or persecution.

There are others who are economic migrants.

We have to recognise there is a difference.

The Foreign Secretary is presumably aware that the majority of those who seek asylum

after crossing the channel are successful,

and that the people smugglers have proved remarkably adept at shifting their tactics.

So what effect, if any, will the deal have on overall numbers?

I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily.

Later, I'll be speaking to Peter Walsh from the Migration Observatory at Oxford University about the deal.

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