Number of congestion Small boats Over 80 people in the UK have been quadrupled in three years, doubting the pledge of labor to prevent people from traveling dangerous.
Fresh analysis from House office It is shown that 33 boats traveled dangerous during the year from April 2025 while carrying more than 80 people – from 8 to April 2022 in the year.
While the total number of dingies – was usually designed to carry up to the safety of 20 people – reduced from 1,116 to 738 in 2022 to 738, more people have been crammed more and more for each vessel. cross.
Home office data It has been shown that this year the number of days with good weather conditions for migrants to cross the English channel has exceeded double the years.
The government published data a few days after the record number of daily arrival for this year, when 1,195 migrants traveled to the UK in 19 boats on Saturday.
It comes despite labor in December Claiming that the government broke the link between favorable weather conditions And an influx of Pravasi Crossing.
This year between January 1 and April 30, 60 so -called “red” days were, when factors such as wind speed, height of wave and rainfall mean that crossings were classified as “probability” or “highly probable” by the authorities.
After crossing the channel, some 11,074 migrants reached Britain during these four months.
In contrast, there were 27 red days in the same period last year, less than half of the number, 7,567 arrival was recorded in 2025 – about one -third less than the total for this year.
There were also 27 red days in the first four months of 2022, with 23 red days in 2023, with 6,691 and 5,946 arrival in these periods respectively.
Reacting to the figures, Chhaya Home Secretary Chris Filp said: “Labor seems to have a good border security strategy to pray for bad weather.
“This is a weak government, with no plans to abolish illegal migrants crossing the channel.
“This year is the border security of a lazy student to blame the weather for the highest cross numbers so far, claiming that the dog has eaten my homework.”
The possibility of migrant crossing is estimated for the home office by the Mate Office.
Red days means that the possibility of migrant activity in the channel is more than 55 percent, in which crossings are classified as “probability” or “highly probable”.
The analysis is based on data recorded in Dover Strait and does not consider comprehensive factors such as availability of dingies.
The total arrival cumulative for the year is 14,812 – the highest for the first five months of one year since the data collection starts in 2018.
Guns Kalkan of Safe Passage International said that the growth only increases the risk for people’s lives.
He said, “It indicates that the government’s approach is not working, as the smugglers continue to take advantage of the lack of safe routes for the refugees, hazardly craming more and more people on each boat,” he said.
“If this government is serious about saving life and stopping smugglers, it must open safe routes and expand the reunion of the refugee family.”
Downing Street said that the government wanted to break the link between a favorable weather conditions and the number of English channel crossings by small boats, but admitted that “no quick improvement”.
Meanwhile, authorities are considered pessimistic about the possibility of bringing numbers down this year, not expected to start payment by 2026 with measures.
The government has vowed to smuggle gangs, including handing over the counter-term-style powers to law enforcement agencies under the border security, shelter and immigration bill, who are currently passing through Parliament.
However, he has faced allegations of copying reform UK, when he started publishing the video Morning raid And Sir Kir Star echoed Hanok Powell’s language in a major speech earlier this year.
A home office spokesperson said: “This government is holding the inherited asylum system, which is allowed to develop an entire criminal smuggling enterprise inherited, where the gangs are capable of taking advantage of the duration of good weather to increase the crossing rate for a very long time.”
The spokesperson said that 9,000 crossings have been stopped from the French coast this year.
