More than 10,000 small boat migrants have reached Britain since Shabana Mahmood became Home Secretary, after 2,000 crossings in only four days.
The grim milestone has been achieved under Ms Mahmood more quickly than under any of her predecessors since 2022.
There were 621 arrivals on Thursday, 648 on Friday and 503 on Saturday, followed by an as yet unconfirmed number on Sunday, thought to be about 380.
It means approximately 10,100 Channel migrants came to Britain in Ms Mahmood’s first 66 days in charge of the Home Office.
Under her predecessor, Yvette Cooper, it took 74 days to reach the same milestone.
She was moved sideways to the Foreign Office by PM Sir Keir Starmer after failing to get a grip on the Channel crisis.
Under Tory home secretaries, the 10,000 points took 171 days under James Cleverly and 583 days under Priti Patel.
Only under Suella Braverman was the 10,000 mark reached more quickly, in 43 days in 2022 – the year which saw a record annual number of migrants amid a wave of Albanian arrivals.
One government source told the Daily Mail the timing of the mark being hit was ‘unfortunate’ as Ms Mahmood is said to be creating 10,000 asylum housing places in old army barracks and other places.
The pace of arrivals seemed to be driven by gangs deploying larger boats – dubbed ‘mega-dinghies’ – with many now carrying close to 100 migrants, insiders said.
Traffickers have been able to obtain the dangerous bumper-size vessels despite Labour’s promise to ‘smash the gangs’.
Meanwhile, since Labour’s flagship ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France was announced in July, there have been 17,609 confirmed arrivals across the Channel.
But so far, only 94 migrants have been deported, while a further 57 have been brought into the UK under the reciprocal terms of the deal.
Since Labour came to power last year, 61,968 Channel migrants have reached British soil, not including Sunday’s figure, which is supposed to be about 380 but is yet to be confirmed by the Home Office.
The ‘one in, one out’ deal was flung into disarray last month after it emerged a small boat migrant came back to Britain after being deported.
The Iranian man’s ridiculous back-and-forth journeys saw him arrive here on August 6 – the day the deal with France came into force, and removed from Britain on September 19.
He later slipped out of a migrant shelter in Paris, where he had been accommodated, and headed back to the northern French coast, re-entering Britain on a small boat on October 18.
The unknown man was eventually removed – for a second time – 18 days later, on November 5.
Other migrants deported under Labour’s scheme are also said to have made their way back to the French coast to attempt a second crossing.
She wasn’t a suitable candidate to be Home Secretary, in my opinion. I want Sadiq Khan and other members of our government to be British, and given her background, she frankly isn’t the type to do anything about the biggest challenge this country has encountered since 1939.
Like all the promises that Keir Starmer made, they were all barren promises and lies.
What a mess our government is—one out and thousands in.
I write about this day in and day out, but people can’t be bothered anymore – these migrants just keep coming, and we are quickly becoming a minority in our own country.
The most distasteful sight of the weekend was seeing Starmer laying a wreath at the Cenotaph, while our country, which these men and women died to protect, is being invaded.
Keir Starmer is a pitiful excuse for a Prime Minister and is complicit in permitting this to continue, and he should hang his head in shame and resign now!
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