Thom Brooks: Government is repeating same old lines about stopping boats, unable to acknowledge failure of Brexit deal.

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.

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.

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Outside EU, people can no longer be returned to other European countries under legislation known as Dublin regulation.

“Everyone here is saying to me that because of Brexit it is much easier to find safety in the UK,” one refugee said.

As you may have noticed Jacob Rees Mogg Esquire – as no doubt he would style himself – has invited the public to submit suggestions on the theme of ‘Opportunities of Brexit’. I could not resist replying. Could I possibly suggest that you, after reading this, do the same?

UK set to lose right to transfer refugees to other EU countries under Dublin regulation.

Despite promises by the home secretary to make the route across the Channel "unviable", the number of people completing the crossing has reached record highs.

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.

The Dublin Regulation meant that anyone who had set foot in another EU country first could be returned to that country, but this law no longer stands. Those who make the crossing know it will be difficult for Britain to return them to France.

Some 45,756 people are thought to have made the crossing in 2022. There were no recorded small boat crossings until 2018.

Thom Brooks’ report reveals the Government has created the Channel migration ‘small boats’ crisis through its hard Brexit policies.

Rishi Sunak's triumphalism over solutions on Northern Ireland and migrant boats ignores the fact the issues only arose because of Johnson's flawed Brexit deal - which he endorsed.

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.

Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit.

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.