Following reports of French police allowing smugglers to cross, France agrees to crack down on illegal Channel crossings to ...

Less than a year after Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went down in flames amid a failed promise to “stop the boats,” ...

A duo piloting an overcrowded boat off the Kent coast in a tragedy that killed a woman and child have been jailed for eight ...

U.K. government figures Sunday showed that more than 1,100 migrants arrived in the country on Saturday in small boats from ...

The government has vowed to crack down on people smuggling gangs, but they have faced accusations of mimicking Reform UK’s ...

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

Some 1,194 migrants arrived in 18 boats on Saturday, according to Home Office data, the first time daily crossings passed a ...

U.K. government figures show nearly 1,200 migrants arrived in the country Saturday in small boats from France across the ...

French rescue services found the woman and child unconscious aboard a small boat carrying nearly 80 migrants off the Pas de ...

The rise in crossings come despite harsh measures by both the French and British governments to curb immigration.

The Government published the statistics after a record number of daily arrivals, as the Conservatives hit out at ministers ...

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