More than 1,200 migrants arrived in Britain on small boats over the course of Saturday to Monday, the best ranges since final November.

Just final week, Rishi Sunak insisted that his plan to deal with the small boats disaster is “starting to work”.

Last week he additionally introduced two new barges to deal with asylum seekers, although the final three days alone have now exceeded the capability of these two barges.

Yesterday the Home Office confirmed 545 migrants reached the shores of the UK on Monday, following 703 over the sunny weekend.

Two days in the past the variety of individuals to cross the English Channel in small boats this yr hit 8,500.

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GB News spoke to maritime specialists who pooh-poohed Mr Sunak’s declare it was Government motion that has led to a 20 % discount in crossings in comparison with this time final yr, saying it had every little thing to do with poor climate situations.

When requested whether or not climate could also be a part of the explanation for a discount in journeys final week, Mr Sunak joked he “can’t control the weather”.

A spokesman for the Met Office stated an space of excessive strain had pushed robust breezes by means of the Channel in current weeks.

He stated: “There have been some quite strong breezes running through the Channel because it is on the edge of the area of high pressure, with the wind circulating around it clockwise.

“That has encouraged a bit of an easterly flow along the Channel, which up until a few days ago was bringing reasonably strong breezes.”

The scorching, sunny climate of the previous few days, nonetheless, will make the journey extra viable for these eager to cross from France in small boats.

This morning the RNLI revealed it saved the lives of 108 migrants final yr making an attempt to make the “perilous” crossing.

Taking to GB News from a ship within the channel earlier within the week, Nigel Farage - a passionate campaigner on the migrant disaster - noticed “we’ve had three and a half weeks of constant North Easterly winds in the English Channel - very unusual”.

He stated: “I’ve never known it from May into June to have that kind of weather system. High summer’s now here, as you’ve said already 500 yesterday, goodness knows what today will bring, and there’s no disincentive.

“Yes, sure, we’ve sent a few people back to Albania, but now it’s people coming from the subcontinent that are making up the real numbers, rural Punjab etc.

“Nothing the Government’s done will stop tens of thousands of people coming this year”.