Record 696 migrants cross the channel in ONE day as 2022 total hits 17,000
A BORDER Force vessel brings migrants to shore as 696 crossed the Channel to the UK on Monday — a daily record for this year — in just 14 boats.
Over 17,000 people have now travelled here in small vessels in 2022.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is ready to give France another multi-million-pound package for drones and beach patrols in a bid to halt the crossings.
Dover Tory MP Natalie Elphicke said: “These record numbers are a disgrace.
“We should not be paying tens of millions of pounds more to the French in return for their continued failings.”
It would be the third year in a row where money has been funnelled to France to try and stop migrants coming.
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The numbers of new arrivals are putting Britain on sure for another record-breaking year of crossings.
It comes despite hopes the Rwanda policy would be a deterrent.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have both vowed to maintain the policy if they become Tory leader.
