The proportion of migrant boats being blocked from crossing the Channel has fallen despite many now being much bigger and easier to spot, it emerged today. It comes despite Labour handing over hundreds of millions of pounds more to the French authorities to block crossings. They’re going to keep loading up bigger and bigger boats. She suggested this might be why the French authorities weren’t intercepting a higher proportion of boats despite them growing larger. Since Mr Burnham became PM, more than 3,000 migrants have arrived on small boats – hundreds more than during Sir Keir Starmer’s first three weeks in office.