{"id":76985,"date":"2025-07-02T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76985"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:24:55","slug":"20000-small-boat-migrants-this-year-and-counting-labours-abject-failure-to-protect-our-borders-laid-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/02\/20000-small-boat-migrants-this-year-and-counting-labours-abject-failure-to-protect-our-borders-laid-bare\/","title":{"rendered":"20,000 small-boat migrants this year and counting: Labour&#8217;s abject failure to protect our borders laid bare"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"billboard-container watermark\">\n<div class=\"sticky-container\">\n<div id=\"billBoard\" class=\"adHolder billboard noAdLabel sticky\" data-adverts-ad=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;970x250,900x250,728x90&quot;,&quot;adUnit&quot;:&quot;\/5765\/dailymail.uk\/dm_dmnews_newsart\/billboard&quot;,&quot;parentId&quot;:&quot;billBoard&quot;,&quot;slotTypes&quot;:[&quot;gpt&quot;,&quot;gptOOP&quot;],&quot;earlyBidding&quot;:true,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;billBoard&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:[[970,250],[900,250],[728,90]],&quot;oopLoadCondition&quot;:&quot;oopLoadCondition&quot;,&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;billboard&quot;}\" data-google-query-id=\"CO_NzZbSnY4DFSNGHQkdueQpIw\">\n<div id=\"ivoCentreSkinContainer-6a3e9676-0336-4504-8c33-17fcc353a4a9\" class=\"ivo-ad-container i-1035944\" data-display=\"embedded\" data-artboard=\"centre-skin\" data-width=\"970\" data-adj=\"0.9999999370771585\">\n<div id=\"i-a-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"i-c-0-25\" class=\"i-c-0-bb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/07\/01\/23\/99911647-14866419-image-a-67_1751408838274.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleWide cleared\">\n<div class=\"alpha\">\n<div id=\"js-article-text\" class=\"article-text wide  heading-tag-switch\">\n<div data-mol-fe-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Labour&#8217;s abject failure to protect our borders was laid bare today as it emerged a record 20,000 small-boat migrants had\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9776659\/Migrant-boat-crisis-hitting-Tory-support-Red-Wall-seats-Boris-Johnson-warned.html\" target=\"_self\">reached Britain in the first half of this year<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Labour&#8217;s abject failure to protect our borders was laid bare today as it emerged a record 20,000 small-boat migrants had\u00a0reached Britain in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Migrants-after-Labour-win.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76986,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76985\/revisions\/76986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}