More than 300 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Friday, bringing the total number of arrivals in 2024 to over 36,000. The Home Office reported 305 crossings, with a total of 1,163 crossings since Christmas Day.
More than 300 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats on Friday, government figures show, bringing the total for 2024 to more than 36,000. The Home Office said 305 people made the crossing, meaning that since Christmas Day the number of people arriving by small boats had reached 1,163. It means the number of people arriving by small boats since the Home Office started to release figures on 3 November 2018 stands at 150,053, data compiled by BBC South East shows.
The total for 2024 now stands at 36,023 people, already surpassing 2023's total of 29,437.More than 150,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats since 2018, according to BBC South East data.The scheme aimed to deter small boats crossings in the Channel by sending some people who arrived in the UK illegally to the east African country.'Well over 20,000 have crossed under Labour, over 20% more than the same time last year. 'These rising numbers are the predictable outcome of Starmer scrapping many Conservative measures to tackle this issue, like scrapping the Rwanda deterrent before it even started. 'We know from the experience in Australia that a deterrent would have stopped the boats if it had been allowed to start as planned in late July.' A Home Office spokesperson said: 'We all want to end dangerous small boat crossings, which threaten lives and undermine our border security. 'The people-smuggling gangs do not care if the vulnerable people they exploit live or die, as long as they pay. We will stop at nothing to dismantle their business models and bring them to justice.'The party leader defends not outlining specific policy positions so far in an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.Kent train services over Christmas and New Yea
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