Labour has been accused of failing to stop the boats as more than 600 people crossed the English Channel in a single day.
Even though Labour has been in power for six months they continue to blame the Tories and as yet they have failed to stop the boats.
On Thursday Home Office figure shows that 609 people crossed the Channel in single day since data started to be collected in 2018.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said that it is a “day of shame for Labour” as there has been an 18% increase compared to the same period in 2023.
Philp said, “They cancelled the Rwanda deterrent before it even started. If they had allowed those Rwanda flights to start as planned in July, illegal immigrants would not bother attempting to cross.”
A Downing Street spokesperson responded to the criticism, stating: “This is the chaos that this Government inherited.”
Adding, “We put in place a serious, credible plan to bring order to the asylum system by smashing the smuggling gangs through our new Border Security Command, tackling the problem upstream with greater international collaboration and ramping up returns of those with no right to be here.”
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