Rishi Sunak has made stopping the small boats one of his top five priorities, but is he trying to solve a problem of their own making? / A report out from Durham University could make some awkward reading for prime minister Rishi Sunak.
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit.
Some 45,756 people are thought to have made the crossing in 2022. There were no recorded small boat crossings until 2018.
The rise in small boat crossings is not because of losing Dublin III arrangements after Brexit
17/02/2023
It is wrong to argue that the UK’s inability to return asylum seekers to the EU is driving the increase in the number crossing the Channel. / While there is evidence that Brexit is having an impact on small boat crossings, the migration data does not support Brooks’ analysis. Rather, it suggests that Brexit-related labour shortages with the potential for exploitation, is more significant.
Thom Brooks’ report reveals the Government has created the Channel migration ‘small boats’ crisis through its hard Brexit policies.
Academic report says UK’s failure to negotiate post-Brexit returns agreement is main reason for increase in asylum seekers making small boat crossings
10/02/2023
Thom Brooks: Government is repeating same old lines about stopping boats, unable to acknowledge failure of Brexit deal.
Rishi Sunak should admit ‘main factor’ behind problem so he can fix it, says Durham University study.
How Brexit helped create the migrant crisis
03/11/2022
The migrant crisis has exposed a common fallacy about Brexit, that you can simply "pull up the drawbridge" and wish it away.
Just 1.3 per cent of asylum seekers have been sent back by a Home Office unit set up to assess claims following extra “bureaucracy” following Brexit, figures show.
France will not be ‘hostages to British domestic politics’, says interior minister.
Just five people have been sent back this year, against 289 last year when UK was part of EU returns deal.
“Everyone here is saying to me that because of Brexit it is much easier to find safety in the UK,” one refugee said.
Outside EU, people can no longer be returned to other European countries under legislation known as Dublin regulation.
UK set to lose right to transfer refugees to other EU countries under Dublin regulation.
Boris Johnson says Brexit will make it easier to stop migrants crossing Channel - but experts warn it’ll be more difficult
11/08/2020
Downing Street has said that Brexit will make it easier to tackle the issue of migrants trying to cross the English channel, but experts have warned it will be more difficult.