Yvette Cooper is "in line to be the worst Home Secretary ever" after this weekend saw another record high for migrant crossings, commentator Emma Woolf has claimed.
The Home Office confirmed that 656 small boat migrants cross the Channel on Saturday, setting a new daily record for 2025.
The latest arrivals over the weekend take the number of migrants who have crossed this year to 8,061 - more than 46 per cent higher than the number of migrants who crossed at this point last year.
Discussing the figures on GB News, commentator Emma Woolf claimed that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has "almost given up" on tackling the crisis, and their current method to "smash the gangs" has "failed".
Emma Woolf claimed Yvette Cooper is in line for being the 'worst Home Secretary ever' as the migrant crisis continues
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Woolf stated: "They don't smash the gangs and they don't stop the boats. And it's actually worse - they're not just failing, Keir Starmer's almost given up.
"He's now just resorted to saying it's really bad. It's a really bad situation."
In a pointed criticism of Cooper, Woolf fumed: "I think Yvette Cooper may be in line for being the worst Home Secretary ever, and we've had a few hopeless home secretaries.
"We're not just a soft touch at this point, we're actually welcoming them with open arms."
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The latest arrivals take the number of migrants who have crossed this year to 8,061GB NEWSOffering a solution for the Labour Government, Woolf told GB News that they either need to "stop paying the French millions" or "do something" about the surging crossings.
Woolf explained: "It's not just about the warm weather, it's like saying the NHS struggles every winter.
"We know it's going to be fine-ish weather, sailable weather over the next few months, and these boats just keep on coming and we are doing nothing.
"Either we need to stop paying the French millions of pounds, or we admit defeat or we do something."
Offering a defence for the Government's efforts, former Labour Minister Bill Rammell claimed there is "progress being made" to reduce migration numbers, both legal and illegal.
The GB News panel clashed over Britain's depleting efforts to tackle the migrant crisis
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Rammell told GB News: "This Government desperately wants to reduce net migration, and this is a huge element of it.
"We want to reduce the boats, but it's three per cent of net migration, and there has been progress being made on reducing the numbers.
"Overall we had a million when we came to office - the projections on net migration next year of 330,000."
Hitting back at Rammell's remarks, commentator Adam Brooks argued that when the hundreds of migrants that cross illegally into Britain are given "leave to remain", they will "bring four or five family members" into the country with them.
Brooks stated: "So from Saturday alone, we've got a liability now of about 2,500 people. Another five or 10 years of this, even at the next election, this country will be unrecognisable. It will be bringing terrorists in, rapists, criminals.
"Legal migration, we can track people. Illegal, we cannot because they throw their IDs."
