Migrant Channel crossings fall to lowest in four years in boost for Home Secretary Yvette Cooper

YVETTE Cooper believes she is turning the tide connected Channel crossings aft arrivals past period fell to the lowest successful 4 years.

The Home Secretary is hopeful arsenic 4,190 migrants arrived successful September, down from 4,729 successful 2023.

It is the lowest since September 2020 erstwhile conscionable 1,946 crossed successful tiny boats from France.

The National Crime Agency has stepped up its efforts to flush retired people-smuggling gangs.

Ms Cooper is heading to Rome contiguous for a G7 gathering wherever amerciable migration tops the agenda.

A Home Office root said: “It is precise aboriginal days and no-one is getting carried distant with 1 month's figures.

"But what we person hopefully started to spot is the quality from disrupting the proviso chains of the smuggling gangs.”

Martin Hewitt — the new Border Security Commander — volition commencement his occupation adjacent week.