Migrant surge under Labour, warns France

BRITAIN faces a record influx of 60,000 migrants arriving by small boat this year, officials and experts have warned.

- Isaac Crowson

People smugglers are telling them it is now "open season" as a result of the Government scrapping the Rwanda plan, as they bid to send 400 across the Channel each day.

Already more than 14,000 have come to the UK this year, with officials bracing for a surge.

Gangs have already started to increase the number of migrants being put on boats since Labour came to power nine days ago.

One French prosecutor source in Calais said around 400 migrants are likely to try to make the perilous journey daily for the next few months.

Around 70 were seen packed on just one boat which made it to Britain last week, part of a group of 419 which arrived on Tuesday. Another 126 were rescued and returned to France.

Four migrants died after a boat capsized in the Channel off Boulogne on Friday, according to the French coastguard.