Since Labour took office, there’s been a sharp drop in the number of dinghies destroyed that were used to smuggle migrants across the Channel. A 35% fall compared to the Tory years…
Between 2022 and 2023, Border Force scrapped an average of 1,314 boats a year. Between 2024 and 2025 that figure plunged to 547.5. The Home Office revealed the breakdown:
2025 to date = 416
2024 = 679
2023 = 1,173
2022 = 1,456
Labour might try to claim this is down to the rise of so-called “super dinghies”. Though the average number of migrants per small boat was 45 between 2022 and 2023, rising to 57 between 2024 and 2025 – just a 26% increase. Smashing the boats going about as well as smashing the gangs then…
