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A Border Force vessel brings a group of people thought to be migrants into Dover, Kent, following a number of small boat incidents in The Channel
THE Tory government’s immigration policies will lead to more deaths in the English Channel, activists warned today as figures showed that the number making the dangerous crossing had tripled in 2021.
More than 28,300 people tried to reach Britain in small boats last year, about three times the number for 2020, Home Office data revealed.
The increase comes as profiteering smugglers pack more desperate people into unstable dinghies on the French coast, often with deadly consequences.
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
