What ‘small boats week’ tells us about migration coverage

It was billed as “small boats week” – a sequence of presidency bulletins designed to point out progress on the problem of cross channel migration. But the fact of the previous seven days has acquired in the way in which.

The 30 or so migrants who had been moved on to a housing barge off Dorset needed to be moved out after Legionella was discovered onboard and Thursday additionally noticed the best each day variety of individuals crossing the channel this 12 months.

On the Sky News Daily, Rob Powell asks Peter Walsh, from the Migration Observatory, if migration insurance policies affect individuals’s selections to journey to the UK, and he speaks to fellow political correspondent Amanda Akass about why the federal government has picked ending small boats crossings as certainly one of its 5 pledges forward of the subsequent election.

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