00:00GB News can reveal that migrant channel crossings in the year since Sakhir Starmer entered number 10
00:04is 40% higher compared to the previous year under Rishi Sunak.
00:09On to what changed, Nana?
00:10Well, more than 2,000 channel migrants have arrived since Sunday alone,
00:14breaking all records since the migrant crisis began in 2080.
00:18GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White joins us live now from Dover.
00:21Mark, what is the reason behind this? What has changed?
00:25Well, what, in terms of numbers continuing to come across?
00:33He's 40% up, thousands more.
00:38Yeah, well, nothing has changed. That's the point.
00:41Whatever Sakhir Starmer is saying in terms of smashing the gangs, it's not making a difference.
00:48Nothing has changed. In fact, record numbers are coming across.
00:52And today, the very day that they celebrate, supposedly, the first anniversary of the Labour government in office,
01:01that pledge he made on that very first day that he would smash the gangs,
01:06it's clear that nothing is really coming to fruition in terms of any reduction in the numbers crossing.
01:15Already today, we've had about 250 migrants who have crossed from France.
01:22And as we speak, another three boatloads at least are out there.
01:26So that's another 150 to 200 more that are still out in the channel.
01:31I'm going to step to the side at the moment.
01:33Hopefully we can show you down into the processing centre here at Dover Harbour there,
01:39where some of those 250 migrants who arrived this morning are now boarding the buses,
01:48having gone through that initial processing at the facility here at Dover Harbour.
01:54They're then taken to the main processing facility at Manston, just a bit further down the coast from here.
02:02And they're there for a day or two before then being farmed out to a hotel near you, perhaps.
02:10Or increasingly now, accommodation in the rented sector, local authority accommodation.
02:17So literally a property near you.
02:21And that, of course, is something the government is very conscious of.
02:24It's not something that the public around the country are at all happy about.
02:31The continued flow of migrants in this illegal route from France
02:36and the fact that they have to be accommodated somewhere
02:39and the potential tensions that they bring to communities.
02:44Well, of course, Sir Keir Starmer is still sticking by that law enforcement approach.
02:50The message, the mood sort of music that comes from government now when you speak to them is,
02:56well, this is a long-term endeavour to smash the gangs.
03:01It's been a year.
03:03And as I say, there's been not only no slowdown,
03:07but actually the numbers are increasing coming across the channel.
03:12We're likely, as we leave you with these shots there at the processing centre at Dover Harbour,
03:18we're likely to top the record year, the biggest year so far for migrant crossings.
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