Refugees.

SIR – I agree with Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, and suspect that few of the migrants currently crossing the English Channel to reach Dover are genuinely seeking asylum. They will have passed through at least two safe countries.

The French have little incentive to prevent these economic migrants leaving their shores to gain the more generous benefits offered by Britain. We must harden our stance. Anyone arriving from France, where they will have had the chance to claim asylum, must be returned there immediately.

Clifford Baxter
Wareham, Dorset. Telegraph.