One migrant crosses Channel every SIX MINUTES during first week of October as Andy Burnham faces small boat surge
First reported 8 Oct, 13:01 UTCUpdated 2d ago4 sources
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One migrant has crossed the Channel every six minutes during the first week of October as Andy Burnham faces a surge of small boat crossings. A staggering 1,739 people made the 21-mile journey to reach British borders between October 1 to October 7. The shocking rate means six small boat migrants crossed the English…
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It comes after a staggering 1,739 migrants - or one every six minutes on average - reached the UK during the first week of October.
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- Are small planes Britain’s next small boats? (opens The Economist in a new tab)
The problem is that nobody knows
- One migrant crosses Channel every SIX MINUTES during first week of October as Andy Burnham faces small boat surge (opens GB News in a new tab)
One migrant has crossed the Channel every six minutes during the first week of October as Andy Burnham faces a surge of small boat crossings. A staggering 1,739 people made the 21-mile journey to reach British borders between October 1 to October 7. The shocking rate means six small boat migrants crossed the English…
- 609 migrants land in UK in just 24 hours — full list of seven day small boat arrivals (opens Daily Express in a new tab)
Data has revealed how many migrants have landed on Britain's shores, and in how many vessels.
- Andy Burnham's record at stopping the boats worse than Sir Keir Starmer's, figures show, with larger proportion of Channel migrants successfully reaching Britain (opens Daily Mail in a new tab)
It comes after a staggering 1,739 migrants - or one every six minutes on average - reached the UK during the first week of October.

