{"id":71432,"date":"2026-08-03T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71432\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:21:45","slug":"moroccan-migrant-crisis-is-europe-and-uk-about-to-be-invaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71432\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan Migrant Crisis: is Europe and UK about to be invaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Moroccan Migrant Crisis: is Europe and UK about to be invaded\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktcC0pQM3XA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMoroccan Migrant Crisis: is Europe and UK about to be invaded<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter around 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain\u2019s North African territory of Ceuta, far-right politicians across Europe quickly branded the events an &#8220;invasion.&#8221; But with most migrants already returning to Morocco and UK illegal boat crossings dropping to a five-year low &#8211; down 43% compared to 2025 &#8211; what is actually driving the debate around European border control?<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by Director of the Migration Observatory Madeleine Sumption, Director of Politics at Ipsos Keiran Pedley, and Austrian migration expert Gerald Knaus.<\/p>\n<p>They discuss whether the incident in Ceuta could drive a new surge for the far-right across Europe, how the UK could be affected and if immigration is still the hot topic for voters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moroccan Migrant Crisis: is Europe and UK about to be invaded After around 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[29843,59223,366,352,59224,365,59226,59052,59225,10179,6576,59222,354,353,5639,31963,10075,325,10180,20327,58962,5641,59013,341,267,235,11780],"class_list":["post-71432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-channel-4-news","tag-border-security","tag-ceuta-border-crisis","tag-channel-4","tag-channel-4-news","tag-channel-crossings-uk","tag-channel4","tag-eu-immigration-policy","tag-european-migration","tag-far-right-europe","tag-illegal-migration-uk","tag-immigration-debate","tag-immigration-news","tag-international-news","tag-latest-news","tag-matt-frei","tag-migration-statistics-uk","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-reform-uk","tag-reform-uk-migration","tag-small-boat-crossings","tag-spain-immigration","tag-the-fourcast","tag-uk-border-control","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-world-news","tag-zia-yusuf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432","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=71432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}