The number of small boats crossing the English Channel has fallen to its lowest level for seven years this summer, but smuggling gangs appear to be transporting more migrants on fewer, increasingly crowded vessels.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said ‘there is more to do’ as she vowed to continue targetting criminal gangs behind crossings

France and the UK saw the number of small boats carrying migrants across the English Channel fall to its lowest summer level since 2019, with London crediting a new enforcement…