The number of illegal migrants who have broken into Britain via small boat under Labour’s watch now outnumber the entire British Army’s 83,000 soldiers. GB News has the story.
On Wednesday, 781 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel – the worst day recorded since Andy Burnham replaced Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister.
The crossings took the number of small boat arrivals since Labour stormed to victory in the 2024 General Election to 83,279.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has now raised the alarm after the figure surpassed the British Army’s 83,000 soldiers.
The Conservative frontbencher said: “Labour has let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally.”
Under the Tories, around 128,000 migrants arrived in Britain via small boat. …
Labour has overseen the arrival of six-and-a-half divisions’ worth of “fighting-age men,” according to former Royal Navy officer Chris Parry.
“That’s more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day,” he said, branding their arrivals “amphibious operations against our coast”.
While Philp added: “More people have arrived in small boats than we have soldiers defending Britain. That is completely bonkers. The Conservative plan is to end hotels and benefits for illegal immigrants and instead deport them.”
Nigel Farage has described the alarming number of small boat migrants who successfully broke into Britain this week as “a national emergency”.
Writing in the Mail, the Reform UK leader said: “It is utterly insane. And if it wasn’t clear before, the events of the past few days have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that both Border Force and the Home Office have completely lost control.”
He continued: “Years ago, I warned the small boats crisis would define this era of British politics. Predictably, the chin-stroking commentariat declared I was exaggerating. Well, look where we are now.
“On a political level, the cost to this country of this weekly invasion has been devastating. Public trust in politicians is at an all-time low, and why wouldn’t it be?
“Ordinary Britons rightly ask if successive governments cannot stop people from arriving illegally in broad daylight, let alone under cover of darkness without detection, then what exactly is the point of having a border?”
His party has pledged to launch the “largest military operation since World War Two” and deploy the Royal Navy to the Channel to end the crisis.
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