(BBC) The number of migrants to have reached the UK by boat this year is now more than three times the 2020 total.
The Home Office said 886 people arrived on Saturday, bringing the 2021 total to more than 25,700. The figure for last year was 8,469.
More than 1,000 migrants arrived in one day earlier this month, a new record.
Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs there was a “global migration crisis” and the number of illegal migrants departing France was “unacceptable.”
In answer to an urgent Commons question on the crossings from shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds, she said the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill was the “long-term solution” to tackling the issue “on top of a raft of operational and diplomatic work.”
