WATCH: Mark White reports from Dover as hundreds more migrants cross the Channel

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GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White has declared that "nothing has changed" since Labour came to power, noting that "record numbers are coming across" on the very anniversary of the Government's formation.The People's Channel can reveal the number of Channel migrant crossings in the year since Sir Keir Starmer entered No10 is 40 per cent higher than those made during Rishi Sunak’s last 365 days in Downing Street.FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00GB News can reveal that migrant channel crossings in the year since Sakhir Starmer entered number 10

00:04is 40% higher compared to the previous year under Rishi Sunak.

00:09On to what changed, Nana?

00:10Well, more than 2,000 channel migrants have arrived since Sunday alone,

00:14breaking all records since the migrant crisis began in 2080.

00:18GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White joins us live now from Dover.

00:21Mark, what is the reason behind this? What has changed?

00:25Well, what, in terms of numbers continuing to come across?

00:33He's 40% up, thousands more.

00:38Yeah, well, nothing has changed. That's the point.

00:41Whatever Sakhir Starmer is saying in terms of smashing the gangs, it's not making a difference.

00:48Nothing has changed. In fact, record numbers are coming across.

00:52And today, the very day that they celebrate, supposedly, the first anniversary of the Labour government in office,

01:01that pledge he made on that very first day that he would smash the gangs,

01:06it's clear that nothing is really coming to fruition in terms of any reduction in the numbers crossing.

01:15Already today, we've had about 250 migrants who have crossed from France.

01:22And as we speak, another three boatloads at least are out there.

01:26So that's another 150 to 200 more that are still out in the channel.

01:31I'm going to step to the side at the moment.

01:33Hopefully we can show you down into the processing centre here at Dover Harbour there,

01:39where some of those 250 migrants who arrived this morning are now boarding the buses,

01:48having gone through that initial processing at the facility here at Dover Harbour.

01:54They're then taken to the main processing facility at Manston, just a bit further down the coast from here.

02:02And they're there for a day or two before then being farmed out to a hotel near you, perhaps.

02:10Or increasingly now, accommodation in the rented sector, local authority accommodation.

02:17So literally a property near you.

02:21And that, of course, is something the government is very conscious of.

02:24It's not something that the public around the country are at all happy about.

02:31The continued flow of migrants in this illegal route from France

02:36and the fact that they have to be accommodated somewhere

02:39and the potential tensions that they bring to communities.

02:44Well, of course, Sir Keir Starmer is still sticking by that law enforcement approach.

02:50The message, the mood sort of music that comes from government now when you speak to them is,

02:56well, this is a long-term endeavour to smash the gangs.

03:01It's been a year.

03:03And as I say, there's been not only no slowdown,

03:07but actually the numbers are increasing coming across the channel.

03:12We're likely, as we leave you with these shots there at the processing centre at Dover Harbour,

03:18we're likely to top the record year, the biggest year so far for migrant crossings.

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