If you ever doubt the hateful effects of Tory migrant policy, go to Calais and see what I’ve seen | Jeremy Corbyn

The refugee camps are riddled with disease, poverty and violence. The French create the terror and squalor - and UK ministers pay them to do it

• Jeremy Corbyn is a former leader of the Labour party

Hell is a teargassed scrubland crawling with infectious disease. Hell is toddlers scavenging to survive. Hell is a refugee camp in Calais.

Each time I visit, I learn more about the diabolical conditions that human beings are forced to endure in the camp. Having fled the horrors of war, environmental disaster and destitution, refugees there have sacrificed everything to find safety. Instead, they die slowly in a hopeless wasteland. Muddied tents provide the only shelter from the freezing cold. Children beg for water contaminated by faeces, as rats scurry into people's makeshift homes.

Jeremy Corbyn MP is a former leader of the Labour party

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