The home secretary seems determined to be tough on migration, and to be seen to be tough on migration. But after a record number of people crossed the English Channel in one day, and with no end in sight, Sean O’Grady asks: what can she show for her efforts?
– 482 – have been recorded doing so in a single day, and the total number is already higher so far this year than for the whole of 2020 , the figure will probably not exceed 20,000 in 2021. That has to be set against the total net migration figure of 313,000 in 2020.
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