Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has voiced outrage after official government statistics revealed an enormous number of illegal migrants reached Britain yesterday.

The Home Office confirmed that a whopping 609 individuals arrived on Britain’s shore on Thursday, breaking what had been a sustained run of days with no crossings.

The figure is record-breaking, marking the highest number of crossings ever seen over winter – from December to February – since the small boats crisis began three years ago.

Mr Lowe blasted: “These individuals should be immediately detained, and then deported as soon as is feasibly possible.”

“Send a message of undeniable zero-tolerance. They are NOT welcome.

“Then, and only then, will the boats stop.”

Poor weather made boat crossings very difficult over the past week, however the calm weather yesterday saw a rush to get across.

Reacting to the figures, Keir Starmer‘s spokesman insisted the Government is clear their priority on small boat crossings is to cut both illegal and legal migration.

He said: “The PM has said there is a broken asylum system, and of course these numbers need to be reduced.”

“This is the chaos that this government inherited. We put in place a serious and credible plan to bring order to the asylum system by smashing the smuggling gangs through our new border security command, tackling the problem up stream with international collaboration, ramping up returns for those with no right to be here.”

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