3 d. ago Yvette Cooper blames the French after 1,200 people cross the Channel in a single day

The Home Secretary came under fire in the Commons after almost 1,200 people reached the UK in small boats on Saturday - the first four-figure daily tally this year.

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3 d. ago Starmer issues warning after record number of small boat channel crossings in one day

Sir Keir Starmer has reiterated that‘‘nobody should be crossing the channel”, a day after a record number of migrants made the journey.

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3 d. ago No fish deal until France gets serious on Channel boats: Tories urge PM to suspend EU deal amid fury at 'shocking' scenes of police 'waving off' hundreds of migrants near Calais

Senior Tory MP Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, will call on the Government to 'immediately suspend' the 12-year agreement with Brussels.

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4 d. ago Record 1,194 migrants cross Channel in a day as UK urges France to act

France has agreed to change its rules so police can prevent people in the water from getting on to boats, but this has not yet come into effect.

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4 d. ago Watch: Migrants cling to overloaded small boat as over 1,000 cross Channel in one day

Scores of migrants were filmed clinging to dangerously overloaded small boats on Saturday (31 March) on Saturday morning, as over 1,000 reportedly crossed the Channel in a single day.

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4 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer has 'lost control of Britain's borders' after almost 1,200 small boat migrants cross the Channel in single day

One of Sir Keir's senior cabinet ministers admitted the latest Channel scenes were 'pretty shocking' as a surge in dinghy crossings overwhelmed French and UK border patrol vessels.

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5 d. ago French police stand back and watch as migrant families including small children pack themselves onto small boats heading across the Channel to the UK

It is thought six migrant boats left France in the first attempt to cross the English Channel in days on Saturday.

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2 w. ago Moment migrant dinghy trying to cross English Channel diverts Dunkirk flotilla of 'Little Ships' as they commemorated legendary WWII evacuation

A fleet commemorating the 85th anniversary of the heroic effort to save Allied soldiers from incoming German troops had to make way for an unlikely guest.

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2 w. ago Child among 2 migrants who died attempting to cross English Channel to Britain in small boat

A woman and a child have died on an attempted illicit overnight sea crossing from France to Britain

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2 w. ago Two people die attempting to cross English Channel as hundreds more migrants arrive in small boats

The pair reportedly lost consciousness on a boat carrying nearly 80 people

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2 w. ago Migrant dies trying to cross Channel after 'overloaded' small boat sinks

More than 60 people pulled from the water after boat broke up

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2 w. ago Migrant dies after small boat sinks while trying to cross the Channel

The disaster unfolded at around 3am on Monday following a Mayday call to the Gris-Nez rescue centre on France 's northern coast.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer confirms talks to send failed asylum seekers to 'return hubs' in third countries

During trip to Albania, PM announces the Government will begin exploring the possibility of processing some migrants in third countries prior to deportation

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer in talks to send failed asylum seekers to 'return hubs' in third countries

During trip to Albania, PM announces the Government will begin exploring the possibility of processing some migrants in third countries prior to deportation

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3 w. ago Migrants arrive in UK as 12,000 cross Channel so far this year

Pictures show a woman smiling on board a bus leaving from Dover, Kent after Channel crossings on Tuesday.

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3 w. ago Groans as Lee Anderson suggests Jeremy Corbyn should be deported with Channel migrants

Lee Anderson's call for Jeremy Corbyn to be deported alongside migrants who cross the Channel to reach the UK prompted groans in the House of Commons on Monday (12 May).

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3 w. ago Groans as Lee Anderson suggest Jeremy Corbyn should be deported with Channel migrants

Lee Anderson's call for Jeremy Corbyn to be deported alongside migrants who cross the Channel to reach the UK prompted groans in the House of Commons on Monday (12 May).

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3 w. ago One person dead after several migrant boats attempt to cross English Channel

A total of 192 people were rescued by the French coastguard between Sunday night and Monday morning

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3 w. ago Coachload of newly arrived Channel migrants mock Starmer's immigration crackdown: On the same day he vowed to 'take back control' and stop UK becoming 'island of strangers'

The latest incomers are on the same day the Prime Minister admitted mass immigration risks making Britain an 'island of strangers' as he vowed action.

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3 w. ago Bonnie Blue to star in Channel 4 documentary revealing the reality behind her '1,000 man sex stunt'

Bonnie Blue, the UK-born adult star who gained international infamy after claiming to have slept with more than 1,000 men in a day, will soon have her own Channel 4 TV show.

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