The message that appeared in the Minister’s constituency in-box was typical. ‘I didn’t vote for you or Boris for this to happen.’ It was a response to the images filmed by Nigel Farage off the coast of Dover that have finally pushed Covid from the top of the public’s – if not the media and politicians’ … Read more
Government must reactivate scheme to disperse child migrants across UK, warns Kent County Council leader – as 178 unaccompanied youngsters land at Dover so far this year Council is now the ‘sole carer’ of unaccompanied youngsters smuggled into UK Priti Patel has been urged to reactivate the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) It rehoused children to … Read more
Nigel Farage has accused France of assisting an ‘invasion’ of migrants across the Channel after its border patrol ships were filmed shadowing dinghies trying to make it to the UK. The Brexit Party leader, 56, said today would be ‘another record day’ for crossings and claimed nine migrant boats are already on the Channel. Border patrols … Read more
The number of child migrants who have arrived unaccompanied in Kent has almost doubled in a year – as new figures reveal 1,448 people have crossed the Channel since January. Some 450 child migrants were in Kent County Council’s care at the end of April, compared to 257 in the same period last year. Council … Read more
At least 331 migrants have been caught in the English Channel trying to get into Britain in the last 10 days. Yesterday Border Force officers have intercepted six boats carrying 90 migrants, including three toddlers and a baby, in just one day after 14 migrants reached Dover, Kent, on Friday. Over the Bank Holiday weekend, … Read more
Border Force officers have intercepted six boats carrying 90 migrants, including three toddlers and a baby, in just one day. The boats arrived in Dover, Kent, this morning. In the first incident a Border Force coastal patrol vessel intercepted a boat which was carrying a group of 10 males who presented themselves as Sudanese and Libyan. … Read more
Serbia sends the army to its border with Croatia to ‘secure’ three camps holding 1,500 migrants trying to reach the EU amid claims of ‘harassment’ against local people Serbian Defence Ministry deployed army to a town near the border with Croatia Told to ‘secure’ three migrant camps housing some 1,500 people near Sid President Vucic … Read more
Seven boats carrying migrants, including a baby and three toddlers, are believed to have reached the UK today after being intercepted in the English Channel by Border Force officials. The youngsters were among passengers in six boats that made it into Dover in Kent this morning. One boat first came into East Sussex, near Pett … Read more
An unrepentant Nigel Farage has today hand-delivered a letter of complaint to Kent Police after two ‘sheepish’ officers turned up on his doorstep to chide him over his trips to Dover to highlight the numbers of migrants arriving in Britain by boat. It came as he returned to the Kent coast where 11 migrants were picked up – … Read more
Home Secretary Priti Patel is in talks to force France to take back migrants no matter which side of the Channel they are seized on Migrants being brought into the UK when they’re caught in the Channel Priti Patel said if migrants know they’ll be returned, they won’t try to cross A source close to … Read more