“EVER-INCREASING RISKS”
On Monday alone, 351 migrants crossed in small boats, with 21,615 making the journey this yr, in keeping with UK authorities statistics.
The crossing usually proves perilous, and in Nov 2021, 27 migrants died when their boat capsised within the deadliest single such catastrophe so far.
French authorities search to cease migrants taking to the water however don’t intervene as soon as they’re afloat apart from rescue functions, citing security issues.
Starmer has cancelled a plan by Britain’s former Conservative authorities to ship irregular migrants to a holding camp in Rwanda.
The British authorities is now planning “a significant surge” in returns of irregular migrants to international locations together with Iraq, an official mentioned Thursday, because it tries to clear an asylum backlog.
