It was billed as "small boats week" - a sequence of presidency bulletins designed to indicate progress on the problem of cross channel migration. But the truth of the previous seven days has obtained in the best way.

The 30 or so migrants who had been moved on to a housing barge off Dorset needed to be moved out after Legionella was discovered onboard and Thursday additionally noticed the very best each day variety of folks crossing the channel this yr.

On the Sky News Daily, Rob Powell asks Peter Walsh, from the Migration Observatory, if migration insurance policies impression folks's selections to journey to the UK, and he speaks to fellow political correspondent Amanda Akass about why the federal government has picked ending small boats crossings as certainly one of its 5 pledges forward of the subsequent election.

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