Record numbers of asylum seekers have arrived by small boat this year.

A migration expert has revealed how Brexit is making the small boats crisis worse.

Record numbers of asylum seekers have crossed the English Channel from France in 2025 – with more than 1,000 arriving on Saturday alone.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has insisted that only his party has a plan to detain and deport every immigrant who arrives in Britain illegally.

However, Peter Walsh, Oxford Migration Observatory, said leaving the European Union – which Farage campaigned for – has played a major role in creating the problem.

He told Radio 4′s Today programme there is “increasing evidence of a Brexit effect” exacerbating the problem, because it makes it harder for the UK to return the migrants to Europe.

Walsh said: “We speak with asylum seekers now and often they’ve claimed asylum in an EU country, sometimes been refused,........

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