Labour’s New ‘Border Security Commander’ Could be Based Miles from English Channel in Glasgow Or Belfast

New Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is facing her first small boats crisis this morning – four migrants have died in the English Channel after their boat capsized. Latest Home Office figures show 419 people made the journey across the Channel from France to the UK in six boats on Tuesday, taking the provisional total for 2024 to date to 14,058…

Reform Party Leader Nigel Farage was straight on the case:

4 deaths in the Channel this morning, the new Government had better start moving fast.