I nigel, thank you. Well, the top story tonight on gb news is that we can exclusively reveal 80 migrants are currently being housed at a former raf base in essex. Housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than housed at a former raf base in essex. Its more than a month after the first group of migrants arrived there, the wethersfield base near braintree in essex is meant to house up to 1700 people. The home office says therell be a gradual increase in the numbers, but sources suggest the pace will be significantly slower than was first envisioned. The site has had problems with disease amongst the first group of arrivals and there are problems with the utilities not working properly and gb news can reveal 550 people have crossed the engush 550 people have crossed the English Channel in ten small boats over the last 24 hours. That brings the number of migrants whove made the journey this year to more than 17,500 uk border force say theyre on red alert during an extremely busy time
Migration. She says the attorney general and the lord chancellor need to take action over how law firms behave as the number of Channel Crossings continues to climb, with more than 14,700 people intercepted in small boats so far this year. Dame priti warns that the clock is ticking for the government to implement its new illegal migration bill need a deterrent factor . For a start , and removals and a start, and removals and returns. My rwanda plan was returns. My rwanda plan was central to that. The returns agreements that i have put in place and others are now putting in place. We have to get planes leaving the country and show that if you come here illegally, you cant just get a free pass being firm is actually the stance that we should take, and that means removing people and returning people to other third countries or country of origin as well. Dame pretty also spoke to Camilla Tominey about the net zero target, saying the government needs to press pause on the 2050 climate goal.