{"id":92524,"date":"2026-08-02T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92524"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:27:01","slug":"more-than-2000-small-boat-migrants-have-crossed-the-channel-since-andy-burnham-became-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/02\/more-than-2000-small-boat-migrants-have-crossed-the-channel-since-andy-burnham-became-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 2,000 small boat migrants have crossed the Channel since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/08\/02\/14\/110395167-16023031-image-a-2_1785676643652.jpg\" alt=\"Border Force escorts migrants into Dover yesterday. Some 2,057 asylum seekers have entered the UK by small boat since Andy Burnham became PM - up from the same period last year\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 migrants have come to UK shores in small boat crossings since\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-3ee8dbe0-8e72-11f1-a507-2b338306c9ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/andy-burnham\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Andy Burnham<\/a><\/span> became Prime Minister 13 days ago.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-16023031\/Small-boat-migrants-UK-Burnham-PM.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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>More than 2,000 migrants have come to UK shores in small boat crossings since\u00a0Andy Burnham became Prime Minister 13 days ago.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Andy-Burnham.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92524","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=92524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92525,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92524\/revisions\/92525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}