Rishi Sunak said he is "confident" the number of illegal migrants arriving in the UK will come down after a new £63 million deal was agreed with France - but he declined to guarantee that Channel crossings will fall next year.

Speaking after he arrived in Bali, Indonesia, where he is attending a G20 summit, the Prime Minister said: "I’m confident that we can get the numbers down.

"But I also want to be honest with people that it isn’t a single thing that will magically solve this. We can’t do it overnight."

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