small boat crossings

Nearly 30,000 asylum seekers made the perilous voyage across the English Channel in 2023.
Sunak made five pledges to the country at the start of the year, but it isn't going to plan so far.
It's yet another blow for Rishi Sunak's "small boats week".
The Freedom from Torture group put a blue plaque up at the PM's constituency office accusing him of being on the "wrong side of history".
It comes after the prime minister said his plan to stop the perilous journeys was "starting to work".
Pop star Dua Lipa also criticised the way ministers have discussed migrants as “short-sighted and small-minded”
Tom Tugendhat clashed with the Sky News presenter over whether migrants crossing the Channel are breaking the law.
Robert Jenrick claimed uncontrolled migration threatens to “cannibalise” the compassion of the British public.
The former Labour home secretary said it would turn the UK into a "pariah amongst western European states".