French minister says EU, UK need 'migration treaty' after Channel deaths

France's interior minister Darmanin called for a treaty on migration between the EU and Britain on Tuesday after 12 migrants died trying to cross the Channel in the worst such incident this year. He said that the tens of millions of euros that they negotiate every year with their British friends were not sufficient to stem the flow of migrants.

Former British Prime Minister Sunak forged a new deal with President Macron in March of last year increasing British payments to fund more French police along the coast. Under the deal, London agreed to step up funding to France to total 541 million euros, allowing the deployment of "hundreds" of extra French law enforcement officers along the Channel coast.