A mass drowning exposes how Britain fails to manage migrants
Voters hate seeing small boats wash up on the Kent coast. But politicians have few feasible options
ON NOVEMBER 24TH an inflatable dinghy capsized off the coast of Calais, France. At least 27 people drowned; a few others were picked up by the French coastguard. They had been trying to get to Britain via an increasingly popular but perilous route. After years of effort by the authorities to stop migrants arriving from the continent stowed away in lorries, rising numbers have turned to small boats. On November 11th the total arriving on the Kent coast hit 1,185, a daily record.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Desperate measures”
Britain November 27th 2021
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