Taxpayers fund new clothes and shoes for every Channel migrant costing £3,000 per day

The British nationalist is shelling retired a staggering £3,000 a time to to money new apparel and shoes for amerciable migrants crossing the English Channel, caller figures reveal.

In conscionable 3 years a full £4 cardinal has been splashed connected caller garments for the radical coming to the UK connected tiny boats, of which much than a 1,000 person already arrived successful the UK this year.

According to the Telegraph, erstwhile the migrants marque it ashore they are fixed covering packs to regenerate items that person go soaked successful seawater during the perilous crossing.

It's reported garments handed implicit successful the rations see "weather due footwear" depending connected the clip of year, and puffer jackets, hats and gloves successful the winter.

The UK Border Force often extremity up escorting the overloaded dinghys backmost to Britain to get for processing successful Dover and elsewhere.

One erstwhile authoritative told the Telegraph a monolithic store location - the aforesaid size arsenic a subdivision of M&S - is packed with caller attire for caller arrivals to wear, implicit with fitting rooms for men, women and children to effort connected the clothing.

The Home Office has insisted migrants' covering has to beryllium replaced due to the fact that of wellness and safety. It is not known what marque of covering the immigrants are kitted retired in.

Figures, obtained by The Telegraph done a state of accusation request, amusement £3,733,145 for 2022-23 and the archetypal 10 months of 2024 had been spent connected caller clothes.

A Home Office spokesperson said the "basic covering battalion (is) akin to those issued via the Prison Service consisting of underwear, socks, T-shirt, trousers/jogging bottoms, sweatshirt and weather-appropriate footwear specified arsenic flip-flops/sliders, plimsolls oregon trainers".

January this twelvemonth saw a grounds gait for the fig of Channel migrants arriving successful the UK, with astir 1,100 having made the travel successful conscionable the archetypal 22 days. The fig beats a erstwhile grounds of 1,000 migrants landing by January 28 acceptable successful 2024.

Alp Mehmet, the president of Migration Watch, said: "You get dried off, re-clothed and enactment up successful comfortableness to await the inevitable bully quality that you tin enactment for good.

"That's wherefore grounds numbers volition proceed to come, and 'smashing the gangs' is simply a tube dream."

It's reported erstwhile asylum seekers get successful Britain, the Home Office are past giving support for up to 50 relatives to travel them into the state each day.

Family subordinate visas granted to settee successful this state person much than trebbled successful a year, latest information shows.

The Home Office said successful a statement: "We person a agelong past of providing extortion done assorted harmless and ineligible routes for those successful need."