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Some 6,288 migrants crossed the Channel between those dates, compared to 768 in the same period last year. The latest crossings are the first since November 16, marking a 14-day hiatus in activity ...
Since November 2018, the number of migrants crossing has grown. The total number of migrants arriving by this route during 2018 was 297. [13] In 2019 and 2020 the numbers grew significantly, and by September 2020 an estimated total of 7,500 had entered Britain by this route.
Some 122 migrants were detected making the crossing on Sunday, which means 20,110 have arrived since Labour won the general election on July 5. The 20,000 figure was passed on the 150th day of Sir ...
More than 20,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. It is understood official Home Office figures due out on Monday ...
Net migration into the UK during 2022 is reported to have reached a record high of 764,000, [6] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [7] Net migration was 685,000 in 2023. Of the 1,218,000 migrants in 2023, only 10% were citizens of EU member states.
Keir Starmer is a British politician and barrister who has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024 and Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and was previously Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024.
The milestone has been reached in the five months since July's election, after a big uptick in crossings this October compared to last year. ... migrants crossing in Labour's first five months in ...
In August 2020, the UK deployed an Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft from the Royal Air Force to fly surveillance missions in support of Her Majesty's Coastguard and Border Force. This was the first reported use of military support to tackle the migrant crossings. [ 10 ]