Tory MPs urge Priti Patel to return migrants who attempt to enter UK illegally

Suggestion to home secretary condemned as breach of UN convention on human rights

Conservative MPs have urged the home secretary, Priti Patel, to send back immediately anyone including children who boards an illegal crossing of the Channel from France.

They claimed the measure should be enacted because the UK needed to up the stakes" with the French government, which has been blamed by the home secretary for failing to curb the number of migrants sailing across the channel.