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A record 230 migrants arrived after crossing the Channel to the UK in a single boat on Monday, according to reports. The Press Association reports:

GB News said the “mega dinghy” left France overnight, arriving in Dover in the early hours.

The number breaks the previous record from July when 165 people successfully made the crossing.

At 2.30am this morning a boat carrying 230 people was taken into Dover.

This is a record number in a single vessel.

We are now facing the fifth heatwave in months following the recent deaths of 3,000 people in our country from extreme weather conditions.

This is the greatest crisis this country has faced since the second world war and to complacently dismiss the demands for immediate action by saying everything is under control is gross negligence, blatantly untrue and misses the severity of the crisis.