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Second-highest crossings by migrants recorded in 2025
Daily Post
|January 02, 2026
A TOTAL of 41,472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the English Channel - the second highest annual figure on record.
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The Home Office confirmed yesterday that no migrants made the journey on New Year's Eve, continuing a run of no crossings over the festive period.
It means the overall number of arrivals last year finished 9% below the all-time high of 45,774 in 2022.
The total for 2025 was 13% higher than the figure for 2024, when 36,816 migrants made the journey, and 41% higher than 2023's total of 29,437.
For much of 2025, the number of arrivals was running at the highest level since data on Channel crossings was first published in 2018.
This story is from the January 02, 2026 edition of Daily Post.
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