An MP has called on the French President to “get a grip” after five migrants were shot during violence in Calais.

It happened during a mass brawl between rival gangs of Eritreans and Afghans.

Four people were critically injured yesterday afternoon, the AFP (Agence France-Press) news agency reported.

It’s shocking that guns are being used in violent brawls just across the English Channel.

“President Macron urgently needs to get a grip.

"The ink is barely dry on the Sandhurst Treaty – and already the number of migrants in Calais is reported to have doubled.

“The French need to get these migrants out of Calais and help them back to their home nations – and arrest the ruthless people traffickers causing such mayhem and misery.”

The BBC reported that an Afghan was suspected at fire at a queue for food handouts and four Eritreans, aged 16 to 18, were critcally injured.

This is the worst violence between migrants in Calais for months and the use of guns is seen as an alarming new development.

Two hours of violence followed the shootings at the southern outskirts of the French port city.

A second eruption of violence between Afghans and Eritreans took place in an industrial area although this time with the use of sticks and iron bars.

Later that afternoon a third bout of fighting took place out at a food distribution point close to the former Jungle migrant camp at the east of the city.

AFP reports that in all 22 people were injured, some stabbed.

Mr Elphicke has long expressed concern about the migrant crisis in Calais, having visited the notorious Jungle in September 2016 a month before it was closed.

At its peak the site had 10,000 people.

Since then several far smaller makeshift camps have set up by the migrants trying to smuggle themselves into Britain.

Mr Elphicke had last week criticised President Macron after the number of migrants in Calais were reported by French media to have doubled in a week from 350 to 800.

There had then been violent clashes between migrants and police.

Mr Elphicke said at the time that he agreed with bringing in children directly from war zones.

But he said: “Taking in more migrants from Calais only serves to turn the town into a migrant magnet and undermine our own border security.

"We cannot risk the return of the squalid Jungle camp we fought so hard to dismantle.”

Mr Macron had visited Calais on January 16 when he called to the British to do more to police the borders.

The Anglo-French treaty is to speed up the processing of migrants there.

It was signed on January 18 when Premier Theresa May met Emmanuel Macron at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.

It is the first border treaty between the two countries for 15 years.

Migrants are processed in six months but this agreement is to process adults in one month and children in 25 days.