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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Maddox

Home Office confirms more than 40,000 crossed Channel after Sunak pledged to ‘stop the boats’

PA Wire

Labour have branded Rishi Sunak a “desperate liar” after new figures suggest that the number of people coming over on small boats has increase not gone down as he has claimed.

The party calculated that more than 40,000 asylum seekers have now crossed the Channel in small boats since Mr Sunak made his pledge to stop them altogether in January 2022.

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