More than 13,000 migrants have crossed the Channel (Image: Getty)
James Cleverly has warned Labour is planning to do "less" and "hope" for better results in ending the Channel migrant crisis.
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The Home Secretary said Keir Starmer will scrap the Rwanda scheme and rebadge the small boats operational command.
And he warned a Labour Government would essentially be hoping that fewer small boats cross the Channel.
Home Office figures show 144 people made the journey in three boats on Tuesday, taking the provisional total for 2024 to date to 13,045. This is already a record for the first six months of a calendar year.
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It is also 16 percent higher than the number recorded by this time last year (11,278) and up seven percent on the same period in 2022 (12,206), according to analysis of Government figures.
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Home Secretary James Cleverly has been campaigning in Nottingham (Image: Getty)
But Home Secretary Mr Cleverly said Labour's "grand idea" on border control is to create an organisation that already exists and do less than the Tories have done, but hope for better results.
He told reporters: "Their border command is the small boats operational command. Their returns unit is immigration enforcement ... but they're going to remove the Rwanda scheme.
"Their grand idea on border control is to do less than we are currently doing and somehow hope that it has better results."
The latest arrivals mean the tally of crossings since Mr Sunak became Prime Minister on October 25, 2022 now stands at 50,108.
Some 42,438 of those have been recorded since he pledged to "stop the boats" as one of five key pledges for his premiership on January 4, 2023.
Mr Cleverly conceded that the numbers were "too high" but insisted that the Conservatives could offer action where both Labour and Reform UK "don't have a plan".
More than 13,000 migrants have crossed the Channel this year (Image: Getty)
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Asked by reporters on the campaign trail about the scale of small boat crossings in the Channel under the Tories, the Home Secretary said: "Saying illegal migration is too high is true. That's the easy bit.
"Doing something about it is what you have to do and we have taken action."
Dozens more migrants made the crossing on Wednesday as people smugglers continue to take advantage of calm conditions - despite low visibility - in the 21-mile wide stretch of water between France and the Kent coast.
Mainly groups of adult male migrants could be seen walking down a gangway from a Border Force vessel in orange life jackets in searing temperatures.
Once on dry land, they removed the life jackets and went into a large tent on Dover Harbour that has been set up to process small boat passengers.
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Labour has vowed to create a new Border Security Command – which will bring together MI5, the National Crime Agency, Border Force and Immigration Enforcement –to “smash the gangs”.
Sir Keir has also vowed to use terrorism powers to go after the organised crime gangs organising crossings.
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