Published: 10:28 BST, 10 August 2026 | Updated: 11:32 BST, 10 August 2026
A migrant mega-dinghy with 230 people aboard reached Britain overnight.
It is the largest number of migrants recorded in a single dinghy ever, with the previous record of 165 being set just 17 days earlier.
The confirmed 230 arrivals is more than the typical capacity of a Boeing 737 jet.
People traffickers are currently thought to charge around £2,000 per head for illegal passage to Brita. With about £10,000 in assumed costs for the trip, this single dinghy could have made them a staggering £450,000 profit.
Their new mega dinghies are 'floating deathtraps' and at 42ft are longer than a double-decker bus.
It comes after a Home Office source insisted on Friday Labour's plan to tackle the Channel crisis was 'beginning to bear fruit'.
The overnight arrivals mean more than 900 migrants reached Britain over the weekend.
In a social media post today, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: 'At 2.30am this morning, a boat carrying 230 people was taken into Dover. This is a record number in a single vessel. It's yet more proof that this illegal invasion is a national security emergency.'
The migrant mega-dinghy – pictured in Dover today – with 230 people aboard reached Britain overnight
Yesterday French police did nothing more than watch as a baby and toddlers were carried aboard a dinghy to England
Last week officials confirmed traffickers are adapting their methods in a bid to circumvent Labour's 'smash the gangs' strategy.
On Sunday French police looked on as a baby and toddlers were carried aboard a dinghy to England.
Dozens of migrants climbed on to the boat in the waves off Camiers beach, south of Boulogne.
The youngest hauled aboard was a baby who appeared to be just months old. There were a number of other young children and women too alongside mostly young men.
