Official UK Government figures show that number of immigrants crossing the Channel in small boats has topped 25,000.
Parents carrying toddlers were among the latest batch to make the treacherous 21-mile journey by small boats from France while a number of families with small children were also escorted up to the processing centre.
The Dungeness lifeboat also landed around 40 migrants on the beach at Dungeness, Kent.
According to government figures, in 2021, a total of 28,526 people crossed the English Channel in small boats – compared to 8,410 who arrived in 2020.
Natalie Elphicke, Conservative MP for Dover believes the French authorities should be doing more to stem the tide of immigrants in Britain.
She said that France has a moral and international obligation to protect vulnerable people, save lives, stop people smugglers and tackle organised crime and they should not need to be paid to do their duty.
She said that it is even more ridiculous that they pay them tens of millions of pounds and get so little in return and it is a shocking waste of taxpayers’ hard-earned money.
She also said that sorting out the small boats crisis must be a key priority of the next Prime Minister.
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