Migrants arriving in UK by sea top 10,000 this year
The Peninsula
London: More than 10,000 irregular migrants have crossed the Channel to Britain on small boats this year, government data released on Saturday showed...
London: More than 10,000 irregular migrants have crossed the Channel to Britain on small boats this year, government data released on Saturday showed -- unwelcome news for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he seeks re-election.
Conservative Party leader Sunak had pledged to stop the crossings but some 288 asylum seekers made the journey in five boats on Friday, taking the provisional total for 2024 so far to 10,170, according to the interior ministry figures.
That is up 35 percent on the number recorded this time last year.
The number of undocumented migrants arriving via sea had already reached a record high for the first five months of a calendar year.
On Wednesday, Sunak called a general election for July 4, firing the starting gun on six weeks of campaigning in which immigration is already featuring heavily.
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