Record Channel crossing as 230 migrants ‘arrive in Dover on one boat’

• A record 230 migrants arrived in Dover on Monday after crossing the English Channel in a single boat, according to reports.
• The arrival broke the previous record set in July, when 165 people made the Channel journey on one vessel.
• People smugglers are increasingly cramming more passengers into larger dinghies to evade French authorities.
• Total small boat crossings for the year remain lower than in previous years, with around 14,000 arrivals between January and July.
• Reform UK leader Nigel Farage described the record arrival on a single vessel as a national security emergency.

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Record 230 migrants cross Channel in single ‘mega-dinghy’, reports say