42 h. ago Keir Starmer: 'No golden ticket' to UK as automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

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43 h. ago Keir Starmer: 'No golden ticket' to settling in UK as automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

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52 h. ago Automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end in landmark immigration reforms

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

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63 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Starmer blames Brexit for 'Farage boats' crossing the Channel. Is he right?

Sir Keir Starmer stepped up his war on Reform UK today by blaming Brexit for the English Channel migrant crisis and dubbing the small boats 'Farage boats'.

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65 h. ago Starmer pledges rethink on international law to stop ‘Farage boats’

The Prime Minister blamed Brexit for making it harder to remove migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats.

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65 h. ago PM brands Channel crossings ‘Farage boats’ because Brexit has hampered returns – UK politics live

PM also says he does not believe Nigel Farage or Reform voters are racistHelena Horton is a Guardian environment reporter.Ed Miliband is due to take to the stage to deliver his speech today, and he is set to announce a “total ban” on fracking.I am about to announce something you have been calling for and campaigning on, which is to ban fracking for good. You called for it, I’m going to do it, thank you for your campaigning.What an amazing result for our environment, our local communities, and the thousands of committed people and groups right across the country who’ve spent years fighting for fracking to be banned for good – including the many who signed 38 Degrees supporter Geoff’s recent petition. Not long ago, it felt like fracking might make a comeback, with Reform UK pushing to put it back on the agenda. But thousands of us stood up, demanded a permanent ban, and made our voices impossible to ignore. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Keir Starmer brands small boats 'Farage boats' in latest scathing attack on Reform

Keir Starmer has lashed out at Nigel Farage, branding small boats crossing the Channel as 'Brexit boats' and saying the Reform leader was wrong to say leaving the EU would not affect migration

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3 d. ago George Clooney, Typhoon Bualoi and a Channel crossing: photos of the day – Tuesday

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4 d. ago Migrants attempt longer Channel crossing after recent deaths

After a quiet morning in northern France, a large black dinghy carrying migrants was pictured having set off from a beach in north-west France.

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5 d. ago Fury as record number of prisoners freed from jail BY MISTAKE after Starmer’s botched early release scheme

A RECORD number of prisoners were freed in error last year. There were 262 wrongly released in the 12 months to March, figures show. It is a 128 per cent rise on the 115 between 2023 and 2024 — the biggest year-on-year increase. Some were released as their crimes for breaching restraining orders were wrongly...

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5 d. ago New record set for most migrants crossing the Channel to the UK on a single boat

The passage to the UK on Saturday saw 125 people on one vessel come over from France, it is understood. Pictured: Border Force escorts migrants into Dover on Saturday

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5 d. ago Boat carrying record 125 migrants crossed Channel to UK on Saturday

The number of people on board breaks a previous record from August, when 106 migrants crossed to the UK on what was dubbed a ‘mega dinghy’ by media.

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5 d. ago Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat

Body of teenager found on beach in northern France after three other people die in Channel crossings on SaturdayA child is believed to have died while trying to cross the Channel in a small boat, according to French reports. The body of the teenager, who was believed to have fallen from a dinghy, was discovered on a beach in northern France on Sunday.The death follows those of three other people on Saturday who were trying to reach the UK – two Somali women who were reportedly crushed in a boat, and a man whose body was recovered from a canal in the town of Gravelines, near Dunkirk. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Child dies in the channel during small boat crossing, French media reports

An investigation has reportedly been launched

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5 d. ago Child dies off French coast in small boat Channel crossing attempt – reports

An investigation has been launched into the incident at Ecault beach, in Saint-Etienne-au-Mont.

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5 d. ago Child dies after falling off ‘overcrowded’ small boat while crossing Channel

The tragedy is the 21st death this year during small boat crossings

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5 d. ago Child dies after falling off ‘overcrowded’ small boat while crossing Channel – hours after two women also killed

A CHILD has tragically died today after falling off an "overcrowded" small boat crossing the English Channel. The horrific incident on Sunday morning followed two women dying in similar circumstances yesterday. Cécile Gressier, prosecutor in the French port town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, said the child’s body washed up on nearby Écault beach. Ms Gressier said: "An...

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6 d. ago Two female migrants die while attempting to cross the Channel after dinghy carrying 100 people sinks

French police said the women died by suffocation or drowning after the overloaded boat set off for the UK at around 3.15am.

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6 d. ago Migrants keep piling into crammed rubber boats to cross the Channel just hours after two women died trying to reach the UK

The female migrants died while a further 60 were rescued after 100 squeezed into an overcrowded makeshift boat on Saturday morning off the coast near Neufchatel-Hardelot.

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6 d. ago Two women die after attempted Channel crossing, reports claim

The incident happened south of the Neufchatel-Hardelot beaches between Boulogne and Le Touquet

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