Shadow minister slams 'record numbers' of channel crossings

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The shadow business minister has claimed the government has "lost control" as record numbers of migrants crossed the channel this weekend. More than 1,100 migrants arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel on Saturday, the highest number recorded so far in 2025. Andrew Griffith urged the home secretary Yvette Cooper to address the problem alongside her French counterparts.    Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Look, it's absolutely shocking that the government, in any case, has lost control.

00:04More arrivals than ever before, they dismantled unilaterally the deterrent of Rwanda,

00:11and there's clearly no plan to smash any gangs because they're coming here in record numbers.

00:16The truth is that if every one of those small boats was carrying an artwork from the Louvre,

00:22there's no question in my mind that the French police would and could and should stop them.

00:27So at the end of the day, you've ultimately got to ask, what is it that the government is spending more and more money

00:32with the French government when there are more and more arrivals on our shores?

00:37So the Home Secretary needs to be addressing that at great urgency with her French counterpart,

00:45and in the meantime, those payments should stop.

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