Home Office spends £2.5million on chartering boats to rescue migrants crossing Channel

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© Licensed to London News Pictures. 25/08/2022. Dungeness, UK. Members of the RNLI escort migrants ashore at Dungeness in Kent. The number of migrants arriving in Britain in small boats hit a record for a single day earlier this week.. Photo credit: Sean Aidan/LNP

CHANNEL migrants are helped ashore as a row brews over millions of pounds spent chartering boats to rescue them.

Vessels carrying up to 100 people have been hired by the Home Office at a cost of £2.5million, government contracts reveal.

Migrants are helped ashore as a row brews over millions of pounds spent chartering boats to rescue them

Vessels carrying up to 100 people have been hired by Priti Patel’s Home Office at a cost of £2.5million

Private operator Aeolian Offshore signed a £1.97million deal to provide three boats for six months, working out of Ramsgate, Kent.

A further £564,000 was handed to CWind for several months’ boat hire.

Last night critics said the spending showed the threat of Home Secretary Priti Patel’s Rwanda deportations policy have failed.

A record 25,000 migrants have crossed from France this year.

The flights to relocate asylum-seekers are on hold amid legal wrangling.

Shadow Home Office minister Stephen Kinnock said: “The government’s management of our borders has been shockingly incompetent.”

The Home Office said: “We’ll always ensure Border Force have the resources.”

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