Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the BBC the level of “dangerous” illegal Channel crossings is “far too high” but she refused to set out a timetable to reduce the number. More than 20,000 people have arrived illegally on UK shores since Labour took power, up on 17,020 during the same period last year. It comes as the Home Office said it was on track to return the highest number of failed asylum seekers in five years, with nearly 13,500 people sent to their home countries since the election in July. During a visit to Rome, Cooper told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show there had been a “bad history” of home secretaries giving pledges on migration they then failed to keep.
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