AS 50,000 migrants have poured into Britain in small boats, European nations are cracking down and securing their own borders.
With public anger growing over soaring entries to their nations, more leaders are taking a harsher stance on migration - and dishing out swift deportations.
It comes as Sir Keir Starmer passed the damning milestone of 50,000 people crossing the Channel in small boats under his watch.
This is despite pledges from Labour to cut net migration to the UK when they entered office last year.
Home Office stats show arrivals this year are 47 per cent higher than the same point in 2024 and 67 per cent higher than in 2023.
Some 474 people arrived on Monday, taking the total since Starmer’s landslide to 50,271.
Sir Keir did not repeat his predecessor Rishi Sunak's pledge