Channel migrant crossings hit 25,000 mark earlier than any year on record

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/channel-migrant-crossings-25000-earlier-record/

Posted by TheTelegraph

12 comments

  1. ***From The Telegraph:***

    The number of [migrants crossing the Channel](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/28/bad-people-small-boats-donald-trump-keir-starmer/) in small boats has hit 25,400 at the earliest point in the year since records began.

    Some 898 migrants made the journey in 13 boats on Wednesday, bringing the total for 2025 so far to 25,436, according to Home Office figures.

    [Small-boat arrivals](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/22/channel-migrant-crossings-to-double/) this year are 51 per cent higher than at the same point in 2024, when the figure stood at 16,842, and 73 per cent higher than at the same point in 2023, when it was 14,732.

    It is the highest number of asylum seekers to have reached the UK in the first seven months of the year since the first migrants reached the UK on small boats in 2018.

    Last year the 25,000 mark was passed on Sept 22, and in 2023 it was Oct 2.

    The first year in which at least 25,000 arrivals were recorded was 2022, when the milestone was passed on Aug 27. The total in that year went on to hit a record 45,774 by the end of December.

    **Read more:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/channel-migrant-crossings-25000-earlier-record/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/31/channel-migrant-crossings-25000-earlier-record/)

  3. Yet more ammo to Reforms practically limitless stockpile of shit they can throw at Labour. You do have to wonder if Starmer is intentionally being a moron or not.

  4. I think we should fight water with water, I need 25,000 brits to get on a boat and go to Afghanistan!

  5. With just over 19,000 being removed.

    Edit. Post a fact, get downvoted.😂

  6. This is of course a massive issue that’s getting worse but I can’t get my head around the tories using this and saying they’d do any better. Do they think we’ve forgotten the last 5-10 years? Seeing people like Badenoch using this as a stick to beat Labour with and saying they’ll fix the issue is beyond a joke and anyone that falls for it is a fool

  7. The more this occurs, the more people are pushed politically right

  8. Internment camps. Put them in tents and deport them.

  9. Deploy the navy.

    Or remove any government aid for these leaches.

  11. Our Great Leader: “Smashing the gangs innit”

    Really Kaiser Starmer, you are outdoing yourself /s

  12. Stop classing them as migrants & call them pirates. Then let the Royal Navy use anti piracy laws to intercept them

Comments are closed.