Monday saw 696 migrants and asylum seekers cross the Channel from France to the United Kingdom, on board 14 small boats. The defence ministry described the influx as the highest daily tally for 2022 and only the second time this year that daily crossings have topped 600.
Large groups of people, including young children, were brought ashore at Ramsgate, on the Kent coast in southeast England, before being taken by bus to processing centres.
