migrants

Pictures show people wearing life jackets coming ashore in Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel.

Vietnamese migrants accounted for the single largest group of arrivals in the first six months of the year.

The Prime Minister will use a speech to Interpol to tell the world to ‘wake up to the severity of this challenge’.

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce a new team of investigators who will use counter-terror powers to tackle people smugglers.

Home Office figures show 5,417 people made the journey in 31 days.

The latest figures take the total for 2024 so far to more than 30,000.

A man was declared dead when he was brought ashore in the rescue operation by a French navy helicopter and lifeboat on Wednesday morning.

Migrants are being transferred from the barge and into hotels across the country

So far this year, 49 deaths have been reported by the French coastguard.

The man, who was Indian and aged about 40, was in a boat which left from the town of Tardinghen in northern France, French authorities said.