Andy Burnham vows to be “relentless” as 2,000 Channel migrants arrive — plus Reform’s Royal Navy plan, police urged to fast for Ramadan and the Cambridge professor facing extraordinary questions over his life story’

Andy Burnham has promised a “relentless” new approach to the Channel crisis — but critics are asking what his plan actually involves after around 2,000 migrants arrived in a fortnight. Julia Hartley-Brewer and former Conservative adviser Claire Pearsall examine Reform UK’s proposal to deploy the Royal Navy and return migrant boats to France, as well as the practical, diplomatic and military…