We’ve become used to referring to the endless flow of illegal migrants arriving on our shores as the ‘small boats’ crisis.
But the truth is that, these days, they are anything but. One mega craft that made landfall in the early hours of yesterday was carrying no fewer than 230 people, the largest number to make the journey in a single vessel.
That’s the equivalent of more than 20 football teams. If they all lived in one place, we’d be forced to describe it as a village rather than a hamlet.
Andy Burnham may claim that Labour’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats is
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