Daniel Sandford
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282 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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And of course, that's the risk as you make it harder and harder and harder to get the boats across from the beaches near Calais.
Then the people smugglers who are ruthless, only interested in making money, are going to take greater and greater risks with the people that they're taking money off.
Yeah, I mean, it's staggering.
So we went from a point where people were buying essentially...
large rubber dinghies in decathlon which would they could cram 20 odd people on and then the french obviously stopped that and stopped boats being sold in france that could be used like that now these are purpose built in china built only for one job and that's for smuggling people across water
And these are boats that even... They are very, very large.
But even if you looked at them, you think might be suitable for sort of 50 people on calm water.
The biggest one, they've had 230 people on.
They're sitting them...
on the sides, in rows in the middle, and then again on the other side.
I mean, however big the boats get, the people smugglers are still crowding more and more people on, so they're still overcrowded.
And it's just, they're carrying essentially the number of passengers that a 737 MAX carries.
can carry on what is an inflatable boat.
Yeah, the average people per boat has been steadily rising.
But despite that, because of the work being done by the French, the work being done to strangle the supply of boats and engines, and because of the weather, which has been unusual this year, but not only because of the weather,
Even though they're putting more and more people onto bigger boats, the numbers are 43% down since the 1st of January compared to last year, which was the worst year.
So it is a really substantial drop at the moment.
And actually, there has been quite a lot of activity yesterday and today.
On the chart that I keep on my desk and update every day, it's almost been a flat line over the last few weeks.
It's quite shocking how many fewer have been crossing, but still some boats are getting through.
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