Why good weather isn’t to blame for small boat crossings
This Is Why
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
On today's Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky News' political correspondent Ali Fortescue and senior data journalist Daniel Dunford to assess what the new data tells us about how well the government's plans to tackle small boat crossings are working and what they've learnt about how the smuggling gangs are adapting.
Producer: Emily Hulme
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:00.2 | Coming up on the Sky News Daily with me, Neil Patterson, data shows an increase in people crossing the channel in small boats. |
| 1:06.5 | The government says the good weather is to blame, but is that the full story? |
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