LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - Nearly 20,000 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain on small boats so far in 2025, a record high for the first six months of the year, adding pressure on Prime Minister ...

A group of people believed to be migrants are led through the Border Force compound in Dover, England, Sunday June 1, 2025, following a number of small boat crossings in the Channel yesterday. (Gareth ...

More than 1,000 small boat migrants arrive in UK in 24 hours - It is the fourth time this year that more than 1,000 migrants have arrived on small boats in the UK in a single day ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has linked the rise in small boat arrivals to Brexit, describing the crossings as "Farage boats". He placed some of the blame on the UK leaving European Union (EU) ...

Politicians from Reform UK, Labour, the Conservatives and Lib Dems are clashing over migrant small-boat crossings, asylum hotels and the string of anti-migrant protests. The live televised debate on ...

The UK government blamed months of good weather for a surge in migrants arriving via small boat crossings from France, as it seeks to take the political sting out of record arrivals this year. There ...

The UK saw its first beach landing of an unescorted migrant boat in almost three years this weekend, raising fresh questions about Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s campaign to slow a record surge in ...

French police used pepper spray to stop migrants from reaching a small boat before it set off towards the UK on Friday ...

LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A record 28,076 migrants have crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats this year, a 46% rise on the same period in 2024, government data showed on Monday, piling ...