Home Office orders review after two small boats reach Kent without being intercepted – UK politics live

Shabana Mahmood says the failure to intercept the two boats was ‘not acceptable’

Not every migrant boat can be intercepted, a cabinet minister has suggested, after two uncontrolled landings from the Channel in two days. The Press Association says Lucy Powell, the education secretary, said “(you) can’t stop everything all of the time”, the day after 21 people were detained when a boat evaded Border Force to reach the beach of Samphire Hoe in Dover. PA reports:

It was the second undetected landing in two days, following a dinghy making it to shore at Folkestone on Monday morning.

Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, who has ordered an urgent review by the Border Security Command, said the failure to intercept the two boats was “not acceptable”.

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