The average number of migrants crammed onto small boats has more than doubled over five years to a record high under Labour, it emerged today. This was up from an average 28 per boat for the whole of 2021, when 1,064 vessels carrying 28,526 migrants made it to the Kent coast. ‘Only the Conservative Party has a plan to end illegal Channel crossings by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and deporting all illegal immigrants within a week of arrival.’ At least 14 UK-bound migrants have died in the Channel this year, either by drowning or through suffocation aboard overcrowded small boats. A Home Office spokesman said: 'This government is bearing down on dangerous small boat crossings and restoring control at our border.