Migrants who have arrived across the Channel now outnumber Britain’s entire armed forces, it has been claimed.
More than 182,000 people have reached England in small boats since the crisis began, official figures show.
According to Migration Watch it means their numbers have now overtaken the total personnel in the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, which stood at 180,779 in January.
The pressure group’s analysis has also found that most are ‘military age men’, as almost 90 per cent of small boat migrants are male, and 67 per cent are between 18 and 39.
And its chairman Alp Mehmet warned that the rate of arrivals is increasing.
