Just 1% of small boat migrants who have reached Britain since 2020 have been removed by Home Office

Just one per cent of migrants who have reached the UK on small boats in the last three years have been returned to their home countries, new figures have revealed.

In a letter to MPs, Home Office permanent secretary Sir Matthew Rycroft said that since 2020, just 1,182 people who arrived on small boats across the Channel had been returned to their home country out of a total of more than 111,800.