As Emmanuel Macron and Theresa May shook hands on their "humane and efficient" new deal ensuring post-Brexit border security this week, a very different scene was unfolding across the channel in Calais. 

On the port city’s eastern outskirts, around 30 young Eritrean men huddled together for warmth as they gazed up at a barbed-wire fence which stood between them and a lorry park.

“We sleep under the bridge there,” said a 24 year-old who gave his name as Samuel, pointing to a squalid underpass beside the ring road. "At night we try to go to UK.”

Samuel and his friends fled violence in Eritrea and made the perilous crossing from Libya to Italy before heading to France on foot. Each night, they try…

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