And for the Labour Government, these giant galleys are a stark testament to the insoluble problem of Channel 'small boats'. In 2018 – the year the Channel crisis began – the average number of migrants on each dinghy was less than seven. The all-time record for the number of migrants in one dinghy has already been topped twice this month. But what has prompted the traffickers' boats to swell to such a remarkable size? They will corral ever-higher numbers of migrants into these death-trap dinghies just to make money, with potentially disastrous consequences.