The number of illegal migrants coming to the United Kingdom from across the English Channel has decreased by 20% in the first five months of the year compared with 2022, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday

Travelers flying into major airports across the United Kingdom are facing hours-long delays at passport checks on Saturday after their electronic border control system, known as e-gates, went down at the beginning of the bank holiday weekend, media reported

Lawyers representing the UK Home Office admitted on Thursday at the London High Court that the policy of seizing mobile phones from migrants crossing the English Channel to seek asylum in the United Kingdom was unlawful, the Independent newspaper reported

The Refugee Council campaign group urged the UK government on Thursday to change its approach and provide safe routes for migrants after at least 27 people drowned in the English Channel while trying to reach the UK from France on a rubber boat

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has criticized UK's open-door labor policy for illegal immigrants amid the deadly migrant boat accident near the French shore, which became the biggest single loss of life in the English Channel