{"id":16062,"date":"2026-04-26T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/16062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T11:13:46","slug":"fewer-small-boat-crossings-recently-down-to-the-weather-top-tory-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/16062\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer small boat crossings recently &#8216;down to the weather&#8217;, top Tory insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Fewer small boat crossings recently &#039;down to the weather&#039;, top Tory insists\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_EEP7pdN3Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFewer small boat crossings recently &#8216;down to the weather&#8217;, top Tory insists<br \/>\n<br \/>\nChris Philp has insisted the decrease in small boat crossings in recent weeks is &#8220;down to the weather&#8221; and not due to the government&#8217;s efforts to tackle the issue. <\/p>\n<p>The shadow home secretary also criticised Sir Keir Starmer for not having made &#8220;a strong enough statement&#8221; in defence of the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Read the latest:  https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-vetting-commons-iran-war-olly-robbins-12593360<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos:    \/ skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter:   \/ skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook:   \/ skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram:   \/ skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok:   \/ skynews   <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-n&#8230; Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/de&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fewer small boat crossings recently &#8216;down to the weather&#8217;, top Tory insists Chris Philp has insisted the decrease&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[8788,20328,296,20327,2378,16385],"class_list":["post-16062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-chris-philp","tag-shadow-home-secretary","tag-sky-news","tag-small-boat-crossings","tag-tories","tag-trevor-phillips"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116470736619915334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}