Labour says Farage has ‘no serious answers’ to prisons crisis – UK politics live

Q: [From Rob Powell from Sky News] You mentioned the record number of arrivals on a single boat. (See 10.33am .) But isn’t it the case that people are having to use bigger boats because the smaller boats keep getting seized? The numbers are coming down.

Farage said he always said the people smugglers were going to start using bigger boats.

And he said, while overall numbers were down, they were still “horrendous”.

double quotation mark I’ve always thought the boats would get bigger – I’ve always thought they would.

And we were pretty shocked the other day. Do you remember 173? That was about two weeks ago if I remember rightly.

We were shocked at 173. Well, we’re already up by another 25%.

And yes, the overall numbers this year are down but they’re still horrendous …

Yes, we have managed to stop some of the dinghies but it doesn’t stop the problem – it doesn’t go away.

It is still something that is completely out of control.