What 'small boats week' tells us about migration policy
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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The 30 or so migrants who had been moved on to a housing barge off Dorset had to be moved out after Legionella was found onboard and Thursday also saw the highest daily number of people crossing the channel this year
On the Sky News Daily, Rob Powell asks Peter Walsh, from the Migration Observatory, if migration policies impact people's decisions to travel to the UK, and he speaks to fellow political correspondent Amanda Akass about why the Government has picked ending small boats crossings as one of its five pledges ahead of the next election.
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| 1:00.9 | It was Builders Small Boats Week, a series of government announcements designed to show |
| 1:05.6 | progress on the key political issue of cross-channel migration. But the reality of the last seven days has been somewhat different. |
| 1:13.6 | A barge moored off the Dorset coast that was brought in to house asylum seekers had to be emptied |
| 1:19.6 | after potentially harmful bacteria was found. |
| 1:22.6 | A blame game is now underway over who knew what and when. |
| 1:25.6 | Well, it may be the council notified the home office. |
| 1:29.0 | That's an issue for those in the home office to respond to. Obviously, this is a home office |
| 1:33.5 | lead. My understanding from colleagues in the home office is it was notified to home office's |
| 1:37.7 | ministers on Thursday and they then took very quick action as a result. Thursday saw the highest |
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