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On a foggy spring afternoon in Calais, President Mitterrand of France and Queen Elizabeth II fastened their seatbelts in the royal Rolls-Royce. Just over half an hour later, they arrived in Folkestone.
In the early morning of June 6 last year, the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine was breached. Russia was widely agreed (except by Russia) to be the culprit. Hundreds died in the ensuing floods. Thousands had to flee their homes. Forests covering 120,000 acres were inundated.
Rishi Sunak has invested a great deal of his political capital in stopping small-boat crossings by would-be asylum seekers, so the latest official figures will have come as a welcome new year boost. They show the number of migrants crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Total arrivals in 2023 were down by more than a third on the previous year at 29,437. This is 36 per cent lower than the record 45,774 crossings for the whole of 2022.However,