
Channel crossings top 18,000 for the year so far
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Labour is accused of 'losing control' of Britain's borders as Channel migrant crossings hit record pace with 4,000 this year
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Shock data reveals one in 12 living in London are illegal migrants
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More than 1,000 migrants have arrived in UK already in 2025 in new record as Keir Starmer struggles to get to grips with Channel crisis
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Migrants crossing English Channel to UK surged by 25% in 2024, new figures show
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Migrants crossing Channel to UK in 2024 jump by 25 percent
New Indian Express3 die off northern France coast in a Channel crossing attempt
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People smugglers offer migrants ‘package deals’ to UK as Channel crossings top 150,000 since 2018
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People smugglers take advantage of the fog to slip more migrants across Channel two days after total topped 150,000 since records began in 2018
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More than 150,000 migrants have crossed the Channel to the UK since 2018 after another 407 arrived on Boxing Day
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Timeline of the Channel migrant crisis
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Labour claims to have broken the link between migrant crossings and good weather
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The people-traffickers don't even take Christmas Day off! Dozens of migrants are caught trying to cross the Channel in inflatable boats
Daily MailUK and Germany sign deal against people smugglers as Europe struggles to halt Channel crossings
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Number of Vietnamese migrants crossing Channel on small boats soars 177% in a year
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More than 3,000 migrants arrived in Britain in busiest fortnight of Channel crossings this year, new figures reveal
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Number of small boat migrants crossing Channel this year passes 2023 total
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Nearly 500 migrants cross English Channel in one day as nine boats make it to UK with numbers up on this time last year
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Britain's small boat crisis! More than 13,0000 migrants have crossed the English Channel during Labour's first 100 days in power
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Nearly 1,000 migrants cross the English Channel in small boats on the busiest day in two years as four people die trying to make the journey
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Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense 'for three more years'
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More than 24,000 migrants have now crossed the Channel this year after another 700 were intercepted - as Tory leader favourite Robert Jenrick claims dozens of terror suspects have 'waltzed in' on smal
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Channel crossings since Labour came to power top 10,000
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A near daily record of 801 migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday in just 14 small boats - as tragedy earlier today claims lives of eight others
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12 migrants perish crossing Channel
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12 migrants perish crossing Channel
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12 migrants perish crossing Channel
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Crossings continue day after 12 migrants die in Channel tragedy
The IndependentAt least 12 dead after migrant boat capsizes in English Channel, says French interior minister
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More than 20,000 migrants arrive in UK crossing Channel this year, figures show
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Number of small boat arrivals passes 6,000 since Labour came to power as over 500 migrants cross the Channel in one day
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Labour is accused of 'undoing Tories work' on tackling Channel crisis - as 25,300 small boat migrants granted asylum in just one year
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492 migrants came to UK in small boats on Saturday, Home Office says
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Five thousand migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since Keir Starmer became Prime Minister, new figures show
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Migrant Channel crossings since Labour election victory top 1,000
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Labour to allow 100,000 migrants to apply for asylum
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Migrant Channel crossings since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister top 50,000
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Record number of migrants cross Channel in first six months of year
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More than 1,200 migrants have crossed the English Channel in 20 boats in the past week - as total on Rishi Sunak's watch nears 50,000 milestone
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People smugglers 'take advantage' of D-Day anniversary: 80 migrants including a baby are rescued from capsized dinghy in the Channel as perilous crossings are launched while world leaders attend histo
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Home Office confirms more than 40,000 crossed Channel after Sunak pledged to ‘stop the boats’
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Nearly 300 migrants have already been intercepted crossing the English Channel in first five days of this month - and more than 80,000 since Government first struck Rwanda deal
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Migrants accuse French police of forcing them into Channel crossings as numbers hit new record
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Record number of migrants cross Channel as arrivals surge by 30pc
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How many migrants have died trying to cross English Channel after five lives are lost in one day
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Politics latest news: Sunak confident he can 'stop the boats' despite record crossings
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U.K. says Channel crossings on small boats hit a record this winter
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Small boat channel crossings top 5,000 in record start to 2024
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Almost 5,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in 2024
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More than 500 migrants reach the UK in small boats on busiest day of Channel crossings so far this year
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Girl, 7, drowns as migrants attempt to cross Channel to UK
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