What he is not telling us however is how it is going to be brought to an end.
France seems to think the problem is all ours but we have not been responsible for Calais for more than four centuries.
The Geneva Convention on asylum clearly states that those fleeing persecution must apply for asylum in the first safe country they reach.
Demonstrably every migrant trying to get into Britain from France is already in a safe country.
We have not the smallest obligation to take any of them and under international law should be able simply to send them all back to France, which is exactly what the French would do to us were the positions reversed.