Context: 18,565 migrants have been intercepted illegally crossing the Channel this year alone, and 211,198 since Migration Watch's Channel Tracker was launched in December 2018.
This is the equivalent of a city the size of Portsmouth arriving in less than 8 years!
Lot of chatter about small boat numbers today. These are the latest figures from Migration Watch. The reality is there has been a major fall - despite the good weather - in the numbers. It doesn't fit the narrative. But it's clear that something the Government is doing is having an impact.