Iain Duncan Smith has warned that no refugees from the Sangatte refugee camp should be allowed to enter the UK.

As it emerged that France is to do a deal with the UK to close the controversial camp, Duncan Smith has told ministers to stop "waving the white flag" and stand up to the French administration.

He said that the French would be "laughing at us across breakfast tables all over the country" if ministers agreed to allow half of the 1,300 asylum seekers to enter the UK.

"Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett have got us into this mess and now they are on the brink of capitulating completely," he says in the Daily Mail.

Blunkett is set to hold further talks on the closure of the camp with the French interior minister next month. He wants the French administration to force immigrants to apply for asylum or return to their country of origin.

Today's Guardian reports that a leaked Downing Street document indicates that the UK will adopt an immediate "refuse and return" policy to asylum seekers if a deal cannot be reached with the French government over the camp.