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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Bancroft

Record Channel crossing as 230 migrants ‘arrive in Dover on one boat’

Channel Dover
  • A record 230 migrants arrived in Dover on Monday after crossing the English Channel in a single boat, according to reports.
  • The arrival broke the previous record set in July, when 165 people made the Channel journey on one vessel.
  • People smugglers are increasingly cramming more passengers into larger dinghies to evade French authorities.
  • Total small boat crossings for the year remain lower than in previous years, with around 14,000 arrivals between January and July.
  • Reform UK leader Nigel Farage described the record arrival on a single vessel as a national security emergency.

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Record 230 migrants cross Channel in single ‘mega-dinghy’, reports say

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