(National-UAE) Small boat crossings to the UK have risen sharply, with numbers already significantly ahead of the same point in previous years, data shows.
According to the latest Home Office data, 174 migrants were picked up on three small boats in the Channel on Saturday.
So far this year, 4,131 people have arrived in Britain by small boats crossing the waterway. February was relatively slow, with migrants known to have [made] the perilous journey across the English Channel on only eight days, but there have been crossings on every day so far this month.
The total is 23 per cent higher than the same period last year (3,358) and is 33 per cent up on 2023 (3,150). Numbers crossing have risen 87 per cent compared with 2022 (2,212).
