Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on English Channel crossings surpassing 50,00 since Labour entered Government

The number of migrants to cross the English Channel in small boats since the Labour party came to power 13 months ago is expected to have reached 50,000. 

The Government says it’s an 'unacceptable number of people' but pointed to the 'one in, one out' returns deal with France as a deterrent.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey says opposition MPs have been quick to accuse the Government of 'surrendering the borders'.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, so complete about face from the police now,
and they are going to give us the ethnicities, are they?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that looks like the guidance that's been issued to them. However,
it is fairly wooly and still allows each different force
to sort of go about things in a different way.
So here in the UK the police are different, split
in different geographical regions, of course, and they all have
their own bosses. But what now the National Police Chiefs
Council is saying is that they should be encouraged to

(00:28):
disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high
profile and sensitive investigations. Again, so much of this is
open to their interpretation. What the aim, of course is
is to reduce the risk to public safety where there
are high levels of misinformation about an incident, and that
of course very much follows on a series of high

(00:50):
profile cases now, some of which have led to some
violence or protests on the streets. So there is a
series of high profile cases in I guess a lot
couple of months, including two men reported to be Afghan
asylum seekers charged over the alleged rape of a twelve
year old girl in the Midlands, and of course people
got immediately very very upset about that and they want

(01:14):
more information from the police. This all stems, incidentally, from
just over a year ago with the awful stabbing of
those young girls during a dance summer dance class in
Southport in northwest England, where information about the man who
was now in prison for it as or Ruder Bakana
was spreading like wildfire across the across the social media.

(01:35):
It was false in that he was not an asylum seeker,
but parts of it were true in that his parents
had come from Africa, etc. So that's why they tried
to do that, and that's why there was another incident
you'll remember the Liverpool football club parade was rammed into
by a car. The police very quickly said this is
a man from Liverpool who is a British national. So

(01:57):
there are changes and now this will I may get
slightly easier for the police to get through this puzzle
of how much information to release?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yea far enough. How's it going with the migrant arrivals
via boat?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, there is now a target that the new Labor
government here will not have wanted to have hit so early.
So thirteen months in to their government, the politicians have
had to admit that now the number of people crossing
in small boats has passed fifty thousand. The figures were
updated about twelve fourteen hours ago and were updated where

(02:33):
a further four hundred and seventy four arrived in a
single day labour when they came to power pledged to
smash the people smuggling gangs and reduced channel crossing numbers.
But opponents saying, look, this is just a slogan. You've
done nothing, You've lost control of the borders. This fifty
thousand figure is thirteen thousand higher than for the same

(02:55):
period last year. The government's pointing to its new one
in one out turns deal that we were reporting on
a week or so ago, Heather, and they say it's
going to act as a de terror Well, there's no
sign of it working yet, and plenty of people in
this country field. We've been taken for a ride, Devin.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Where do the cops get all these flesh cars from?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
They have finally grown wise to the fact that many
people predominantly from the Middle East and very wealthy, ship
over they're very very expensive racing cars into the center
of London to show them off to their friends. Each
summer and then ship them back to their country of
where they live, and we are talking incredible wealthare including

(03:39):
an identical pair of purple Laborghinis. Anyway, police have been
told by many local residents that the driving around of
these very noisy, very high performance vehicles, particularly at night,
has become quite dangerous, and so they've seized seventy two
vehicles worth about fourteen million South African rand in a

(04:02):
three day operation across some very Swiss boroughs of Southwest London,
High Park, Kensington, Chelsea. The drivers have been issued with
a ticket for a variety of motoring offenses and this
is very interesting, Heather, including driving with no insurance, no
driving license. They've either been disqualified, false documentation and the

(04:22):
use of fraudulent number plates. Now lots of them bring
cars to the UK assuming their insurance in their home
country is valid here in the UK it often is not.
Their driving licenses often not and the idea that some
other are disqualified, have no insurance and are driving around
the center of London is frankly alarming.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wow. Hey, thank you very much for that, Gvin. Appreciate it.
Gevin Gray, UK correspondent. For more from hither, Duplessy Alan Drive.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
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