Unchecked Eurostar illegals ‘let into the UK’

THOUSANDS of people breeze into Britain WITHOUT passport checks in a frightening security loophole.

Terrorists and illegal immigrants can board Eurostar trains from Brussels to Lille then stay on until London. Astonished MPs heard yesterday that no one checks to see if they get off in France.

And there are no regular passport checks for Eurostar arrivals at London's St Pancras, the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee was told. The scandal was first raised in the Commons in 2001, but nothing was done. There are fears thousands of people have entered Britain on the 2,000 trains running from Brussels to St Pancras via Lille each year.

Passengers travel freely from Belgium to France under the Schengen agreement, scrapping EU border checks on the continent.

Ministers admit they are powerless to close the "Lille loophole". UK Border Agency staff have been threatened with arrest for quizzing suspects in Belgium.    Read Here