Fresh pressure is mounting on Rishi Sunak over his ‘Stop the Boats’ plan after new figures showed the number of Channel crossings by people in small boats so far this month is higher than the number for June last year.
Some 312 people were detected making the crossing on Thursday, the Home Office said. It brings the cumulative number for the month to 3,303: higher than the 3,140 recorded across all of June 2022.
