Migrants arrive in UK after crossing English Channel

Migrants person arrived successful the UK aft crossing the English Channel arsenic much than 600 radical made the travel truthful acold this month, the latest figures show.

The French coastguard said monitoring operations were ongoing amid the favourable upwind conditions connected Tuesday.

A spokesperson from the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency added that it was besides monitoring and responding to “small vessel activity” successful the Channel and Border Force vessels person been sent.

Some 611 radical arrived successful the archetypal 4 days of November, aft 3 days of crossings recorded by the Home Office.

According to the latest figures published by the Government department, 178 radical arrived successful 3 boats connected Monday.

More than 5,400 people made the travel successful October, making it the busiest period of the twelvemonth truthful far.

The provisional full for the twelvemonth truthful acold is 31,272, which is up 17% connected this clip past twelvemonth (26,699) but down 22% connected 2022 (39,929), which was a grounds precocious twelvemonth for crossings.

It comes arsenic Sir Keir Starmer said the Government volition “treat radical smugglers similar terrorists” arsenic helium announced a further £75 cardinal for his borderline information bid connected Monday.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper meantime would not perpetrate to circumstantial targets oregon a timeframe for getting tiny vessel crossings down, but said that the Government volition “try and marque advancement arsenic rapidly arsenic possible”.