New home secretary hit with immediate crisis as Channel crossings top 30,000

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Shabana Mahmood will host representatives from the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to discuss ways to ‘smash the gangs’ as new figures reveal the scale of the migrant crisis she has inherited as the new home secretary

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Shabana Mahmood has hit out at the “utterly unacceptable” number of migrants arriving in the UK in small boats after the number of Channel crossings this year passed 30,000 in record time.