AdvertisementA 12-year-old Kuwaiti girl whose family paid people-smugglers £8,000 to make the treacherous journey from Calais to England is among an ongoing surge of migrants crossing the Channel today after a French warship escorted a dinghy containing 13 people into British waters. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced questions over the Government's handling of the issue of small boat crossings. August 6, 2020: 235 people reach the UK Migrants arrived in the UK aboard 17 boats in what was then the highest numbers on record. Around 20 minutes later, a Border Force jet-ski was filmed escorting the dinghy to the English coastline. Home Secretary Priti Patel's crackdown comes after June saw more migrants cross the Channel by small boat than in any month ever before.

Source: Daily Mail July 20, 2021 06:10 UTC