Suella Braverman was Home Secretary and Robert Jenrick was in charge of immigration when small boats arrivals peaked in 2022. Now Mrs Morden wants to remind locals that the recent statistics shows that the Government’s plan to reduce small boat arrivals is working. “The number of arrivals by small boat is about 5% of the size of total immigration into the UK from January 2025 to December 2025.” Reform UK have responded by launching their plans to deal small boat crossings. Their home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf has said it would launch the "the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two" to tackle small boat arrivals, if it forms the next government.