A night of bold headlines: tomorrow’s papers highlight 50,000 Channel crossings since Starmer’s tenure began, significant inheritance tax reforms, drought emergency measures, and Europe’s arms expansion.
More than 50,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since Labour took power. Despite new enforcement strategies like a UK–France returns deal and Border Security Command, crossings remain at record levels—a complex crisis with no easy solution.
UK migrant crisis intensifies as GB News reports 155 small-boat crossings in a single day, pushing 2025 arrivals over 25,000. Government’s “one-in, one-out” deal faces pressure amid record totals.
The UK unveils £100m in new border funding and introduces legal sanctions for migrant-smuggling posts on social media as Channel crossings hit a record number in 2025.
The UK has introduced the world’s first sanctions regime targeting people smugglers, enabling asset freezes and travel bans against 25 individuals and organisations involved in illegal migration networks.
Starmer and Macron agree pilot migrant deal to return 50 migrants per week to France, while accepting asylum seekers with UK family ties.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to Paris this week seeking to strike a new migrant deal with French President Emmanuel Macron, aimed at returning asylum seekers who cross the Channel in small boats. The proposal, understood to be a “one in, one out” pilot scheme, would see the UK return some migrants to France…