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A lifeboat returns to the Port of Dover during a rescue cognition earlier this month
Ninety radical crossed the English Channel successful 2 tiny boats connected Christmas Day, the Ministry of Defence said.
More than 45,000 migrants person made the perilous crossing from France to England truthful acold this year. In 2021, the fig was acold less, astatine astir 28,500.
On 14 December, 4 radical died and 39 others were rescued aft a migrant vessel ran into difficulties.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has labelled the tiny boats situation a precedence for his premiership.
Earlier this month, helium announced a scope of measures to tackle the contented including 700 unit for a caller portion to show tiny boats crossing the Channel.
He besides promised much unit to assistance wide immoderate of the UK's backlog of asylum cases by the extremity of adjacent year.
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