Downing Street has defended it plan to stop small boat crossings after more than 1,100 migrants travelled across the Channel in the first four days of March. Some 1,168 people have made the ...

The Home Office is launching an advertising campaign in Iraq to try to deter people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Similar campaigns were launched in Albania and Vietnam by the ...

In one chilling video a man who made the dangerous journey says: "The boat was too crowded. People disappeared into the sea." A new campaign seeks to warn would-be asylum seekers of the ...

Latest figures, published by the Home Office, showed 592 migrants arrived in the UK yesterday after crossing the Channel in 11 small boats. This was the highest number of arrivals on a single day ...

Some migrants are being rescued from small boats that have been launched into the English Channel much further south of Calais than before. The Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and North Sea ...

But do the UK and France now have a chance of consigning the small boats to history? Somewhat eclipsed by events this week in Washington, Yvette Cooper became the first British home secretary in ...

Migrant crisis: French government to do more to stop small boat crossings as Macron set to lift ban Asylum seeker hotels set to receive 45% of Britain's new reduced aid budget as Labour MPs fume ‘Stop ...

French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said he is looking to change the law to allow police to use their own boats for the first time to take on people smugglers carrying migrants to the UK in ...

The French government is set to lift a ban on stopping migrant boats at sea for the first time in an effort to reduce illegal Channel crossings. Bruno Retailleau, the French interior minister ...

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A Vietnamese migrant, known only as 'Witness Z', told how he was exploited by the gang after arriving in the UK by boat in November 2020. He initially travelled to Britain to pay off money he had ...