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Migrant small boat Channel crossings in 2025 are second highest ever

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  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -30% Somewhat Left

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Bias Score Analysis

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-11% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : On 16 December, border security minister Alex Norris told peers that 193 migrants had been sent back to France and 195 had arrived in the UK under the returns deal so far.
38% : The UK's Border Security Commander, Martin Hewitt, tasked with curbing Channel crossings, told MPs in October that the number of arrivals in 2025 was "frustrating" but that work to stop the smuggling route was "always going to take time".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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