GMB reports as four people die in the Channel after boat capsizes Nigel Farage has led the charge demanding urgent action from Keir Starmer and his new government after yet more migrants died crossing the Channel this morning. According to reports from the French media, four migrants died in the Channel after their boat capsized. More than 60 people were reported to be on the boat off the northern French coast near Boulogne.
Latest Home Office figures show 419 people made the journey across the Channel from France to the UK in six boats on Tuesday, suggesting an average of around 70 people per boat and taking the provisional total for 2024 to date to 14,058.Responding to the breaking news, Nigel Farage demanded: “The new Government had better start moving fast”. Fellow Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, who represents Great Yarmouth, blasted: “419 illegal migrants crossed the Channel on Tuesday”.
Almost all young men. We don't know where they have come from, or what they plan to do". READ MORE: Horror in English Channel as four migrants die on small boat crossing Nigel Farage led the charge this morning with a demand of the new government (Image: Getty) “Many will be put up in luxury accommodation around the country, paid for by us.
“It is INSANE. We will fight this in Parliament.” Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly described the news of further deaths as a “tragedy”, adding that the UK “must do everything in our power to stop the boats and put an end to this vil.