Migrant boat crossings set for worst year EVER as Labour blamed for ‘idiotic’ decision to scrap Rwanda deterrent

MIGRANT tiny vessel crossing numbers are connected way for the worst twelvemonth to day — heaping much unit connected Labour to slash arrivals.

A grounds 1,489 illegal migrants made the risky Channel travel betwixt the commencement of January and February 5, statistic show.

That tops the 1,335 who crossed from France this clip past twelvemonth and the 1,442 successful 2023.

The Home Office has blamed the emergence connected the precocious fig of days erstwhile weather successful the Channel was good.

Labour has grappled with the emergence since it gained power 7 months ago, promising to ace down connected radical smuggling gangs who nett from the boatloads of migrants.

But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip past nighttime blamed PM Sir Keir Starmer for “idiotically” scrapping the Rwanda deportation plan.

He added: “Labour is introducing their Border Surrender Bill which gives amerciable immigrants a way to citizenship.

"This is simply a anemic Labour authorities led by a anemic PM.”

MPs volition adjacent week ballot connected Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s Borders Bill, which volition springiness immigration police counter-terror-style powers to flush retired the radical traffickers.

Last year, 36,816 migrants crossed the Channel successful tiny boats, up from the 29,437 the erstwhile year.