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Monday morning’s GB News Breakfast took an unexpectedly sombre turn when breaking news forced the show off its usual track.

The EU and the UK remain each other’s most important trading partners for agri-food products, despite frictions linked to Brexit. A reduction of red tape could help farmers and other traders on both sides of the Channel, although businesses are waiting for details.

A bold new proposal is calling for asylum centres to be set up in France to stop the dangerous and chaotic Channel crossings once and for all.

The announcement comes in the same week that the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats passed 12,000 for the year.

Researchers propose a rolling monthly cap on the number of asylum seekers allowed to come to the UK

The visit marks another attempt by Sir Keir to get a grip on the agenda and bring the fight to Reform UK

Pictures show a woman smiling on board a bus leaving from Dover, Kent after Channel crossings on Tuesday.

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MP Nadia Whittome has called for a new law that would force the Home Office to reveal the number of deaths in the asylum system, including those who perish