More than 200 individuals cross Channel in seventh day in a row of recorded journeys
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ore than 200 migrants arrived within the UK by crossing the Channel within the seventh consecutive day of recorded journeys, newest figures present.
A complete of 210 individuals travelled on 5 boats to the UK on September 8 in response to Home Office knowledge, suggesting a mean of 42 individuals per vessel.
This brings the whole quantity of people that have made the journey over the previous week to 2,188 new arrivals amid a spell of heat climate.
Saturday September 2 marked the very best variety of individuals to journey in a single day this yr, with 872 individuals in 15 boats who made the crossing.
This yr to this point, 22,289 individuals have arrived within the UK by way of the English Channel, which nonetheless stays decrease than the identical date final yr the place 27,705 individuals had made the crossing by September 8.
Stephen Kinnock, Labour’s shadow immigration minister, accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of getting “completely failed” on his promise to “stop the boats”.
“Despite his victory lap in Dover in June, asylum seekers have been crossing the Channel in their hundreds every single day for a week,” the MP mentioned.
“This embarrassing record shows that gimmicks and headline chasing can never replace the hard graft needed to actually end these dangerous crossings.”