Never before have so many people crossed the English Channel to Great Britain to flee in January, March and February of a year. More than 5,400 people made the dangerous journey across the strait in the first quarter of the year.
In the same period last year there were almost 3,800 people; the previous record was from 2022 with 4,500 people. This is not good news for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative government. The government is trying to push a widely criticized bill through parliament with which it wants to save its asylum pact with Rwanda.