BBCNEWS Breakfast June 4, 2024 06:03:00
And development partnership is the centrepiece of a wider policy blitz to deal with what has been a humiliation for ministers who promised brexit would mean control of britain's borders. record numbers of asylum seekers turning up in dinghies beneath the white cliffs of dover. in the last four years, the numbers of people crossing the channel in small boats has climbed from 297 in 2018 to almost 29,000 last year. this year has already seen 4,578 arrivals and looks set to be a new record. sending asylum seekers to rwanda, however, is likely to prove hugely controversial. every prime minister si...