WATCH as Spanish Police RUN OVER illegal 'migrant dinghy' on water in chase to stop crossings

and now GB news can exclusively reveal that 7,000 migrants have now crossed the channel in the last 8 weeks since the labor party came to power the startling figure makes up a third of the total who've crossed so far this year and this comes as a Human Rights group have criticized Spanish authorities for ramming a suspected migrant boat as you can see on your screens here off the coast of Morocco where four people were rescued from the water one of them was hospitalized but nobody on that craft was seriously injured and joining us now for the latest is GB news's home and security editor Mark White Mark welcome to the show so the Grim Tad of 7,000 has been surpassed let's first talk about that before we go on to perhaps more robust methods of using boats in the Channel first tell us about the total today yes just really within the last half hour another border Force fessel the third of the day arrived in do Harbor with m an on board 150 or so that have come across the English Channel today and that took us to that Milestone figure of 7,000 migrants who crossed the English Channel just in the8 weeks since labor came to power and that to put it in context is a third of the total number across the English Channel since the beginning of the year 20,500 were we are now at in terms of those who have made that illegal Crossing to the UK and of course it follows the arrivals yesterday that you and I spoke about Martin with 615 people who crossed the channel and the day before that 525 crossed the channel what's the government saying in response to this well they're saying that they are embarked on a a process of trying to ensure that they can smash the gangs they're recruiting 100 new investigators for the National Crime agency to go after the people Smugglers and of course in the process as well of creating this new border security command which will be given new uh counterterrorism powers to help them more robustly go after those people Smugglers involved in this trade in human cargo which is worth many millions of pounds and M white we again spoke yesterday of the charm offensive that sakir starma was on across Continental Europe speaking first to the German Premier and then and then again to the French President macron about more join up approach of stopping the gangs right back down the chain but we keep saying M white it's slow and the gangs don't set to get the mammo and M white that brings on to the next talking point and that's this extraordinary video that surfaced in the Mediterranean of the morocc and Spanish Coast get let's get that on the screen now Mark and talk us through what happened here it's been called by the Spanish Socialist Party an intolerable human disaster but it's it's important to point out that nobody was at all seriously injured in this but Mark tell us what's going on here yes well I mean clearly evidently it's not a human disaster in any way shape or form one person was slightly injured um you can see from the video there this is just off of Spanish sh clave um which is next to Morocco in North Africa that Guardia civille boat trying to stop the migrant Bool which has got a significant uh powerful engine on it as well at that point it goes right over the top of the migrant boat with one person cast into the water at that point um so as far as the the incident was concerned you had the the migrants on board that V boat absolutely determined that they were not going to uh pull about that they were not going to allow the F the uh Spanish police patrol boat uh to board them and to take them into custody and that's why you saw uh this Chase and the maneuvering tactics of the Spanish which as you see were robust Martin and Mark White this video has now been viewed millions of times and it has to be said a lot of people viewing it are saying nobody is condoning ramming boats and in fact this looked like an accident it looked like the the the migrant boat kind of turned into the larger craft and was kind of swamped in the In the Heat of the Moment as it were nevertheless Mark White we hear all the time about turning boats back about Towing boats back to France in the English channel and time and again Mark White were told this isn't permissible instead we see more or less escorts asore from both F French and English British vessels Mark White is there any evidence of previous attempts to be more robust in the English Channel do you think if so that that might have any leeway any any any resonance with the current labor government I I don't think with the current labor government no but you're absolutely right under the previous government there were uh Maneuvers uh to be more robust uh with the small Bol migrants uh coming across the English Channel we can show you uh hopefully some more video that uh uh we filmed when we were down in do uh a couple of years back and this was under pretty Patel who was the Home Secretary and we saw jet skis in action there as these border of force um vessels uh were on standby as well and uh they had a mockup of a small boat there and the jet skis in operation three of them there uh all trying to maneuver uh uh the the small boats and this was the tactic that pretty Patel wanted to uh see border Force adopt to be much more robust to send out this message that if you come across uh they will her you straight back towards France however the the home office uh the lawyers the legal team in the home office um looked at the tactics involved and the advice that came back from them was that this would potentially uh land the home office and the Home Secretary uh in trouble that it might not be legal so pretty Patel backed off uh from that approach she wanted to go down that road uh but she listen to the advice of those legal teams at the home office and we are where we are with now border Force effectively uh and they hate you seeing this but effectively um acting as a taxi service when these boats reach UK Waters they are picked up it's as simple as that every day and we've seen it again today with 150 people who've crossed the English Channel three occasions they got into UK Waters from three boats and they were picked up by border force uh and taken to do but there is some uh robust Tactics still taking place out in the channel Martin we can show you another bit of video recently uh that shows the Spanish is uh involved in robustly dealing with uh a small B out in the middle of the channel as well or no we can't bring you that we'll do it in the next hour mark white we'll have plenty more nibbles at this story throughout the show thank you very much Mark White NOW less than two months after sakir stor romps to a landslide election win is the country waking up to the reality of Life under a labor government well SEC sters regime is being plagued by allegations of cronyism fears of a brutal October tax trade aing the winter fuel amps to fund a bumper union pay rise a mounting illegal immigration crisis and cause of two tier policing and today has emerged that starmer's personal popularity has plummeted to minus 16 points his lowest score on record and a drop of 27 points from his postelection high of plus 11 I think we saw pictures there of SK sta with President macron enjoying his Last Tango in Paris before he returns home so the question is is is this just early ter blues or is it a sign of a deeper dissatisfaction with the stor regime and we join now by AB G news political correspondents Katherine forer Katherine welcome to the show now before we talk about s stor I understand you've just done an interview just spoken with and been at a speech by the conservative leader hopeful Tom tugan hat tell us more yes that's right good afternoon Martin um I've just been at an event from Tom tugend one of the six um hoping to become a conservative leader and leader of the opposition um quite an interesting speech basically based around um Public Services very wide ranging of course he's got a Monumental job a to become leader and B to bring a very fractured conservative party back together if um if he does win it um but he did say something that particularly struck me and it was a about uh the numbers of legal migrants coming to this country let's just have a look at what he had to say conservative party under my leadership will commit to a legally binding annual cap on non-british annual net migration of 100,000 we cannot sustain the hundreds of thousands it is today so he called uh uh legal migration the elephant in the room and the strain that it puts on public services so here we go again because of course the Tor spent years saying they'd get net migration down to the tens of thousands and then it went up what to 34 of a million at one point very recently so I think it's fascinating that he is making that pledge that will obviously appeal to plenty of people who were very fed up with a conservative party who may have gone to reform Etc of course of course a are going people going to believe them given their record and even if they can do that then how are they going to get the workers for the care sector for the NHS Etc um so I asked him that he did say it would be within four years of them coming to power but he said you know this low wage economy and relying on foreign workers has got to stop um but of course the conservatives had 14 years to fix that and uh and they didn't do so did they y superb stuff Katherine for 100,000 net as you say that's significantly lower than 3/4 a million that it was last time around thank you very much let's move on now speak to our next guest Catherine speak to you next time and move on to the former labor party advisor James matthewson who joins us now on the show James always a pleasure so the latest figure there 100,000 from Tom tanap let's get back to sakir starm the Prime Minister the Grim tally of 7,000 illegal migrants over the channel since the Labour party came into power and the popularity of sakir Stormer has gone off a cliff it's fair to be said since that general election down 27 points to minus 16 cronyism allegations um the um perhaps a bumper tax raid in October austerity that might make George Osborne blush in the NHS and in education winter fuel allowance is being plundered for pensioners while Asylum Seekers are being pampered two tier pleasing allegations it's been a torrid time James for S Sama thus far are these popularity um ratings early term blues or an indication of something more to come well before we we come on Kia starm Martin I don't think any Asylum Seeker has been pampered that I can see uh I don't think I've see experience at all so I have to challenge that off the bat however Kia st's popularity rate and you're absolutely right it's taking a plummet and uh I think it's to be expected I mean there's always going to be this situation right when you're on the outside and you're in opposition and you're shouting in uh you know there's always going to be that chance to build your credibility to build your portfolio of you know of everything you can offer the country and everything you can stand for and then when you're in power you are suddenly responsible for everything that goes wrong um things that aren't of your making things that you've never dreamt would be a problem events that seem to happen randomly so you know all of this can be attributed to that I think it is early days yet I think we will see hopefully um the the work that the labor party wants to do in that it committed to doing during the election being delivered but it was never going to be delivered within a few weeks but the last thing the labor party wants to be talking about is things that frankly it does not prioritize um as serious um issues that need to be dealt with right now and a lot of the time that's the thing you know talking about things like two tier policing that wasn't even a terminology uh during the election so you know to to predict that you would be talking about something like that at this stage that would be frustrating many people in the labor party upup James it's also worth pointing out that there's been a shift in voter intentions again it's very very early terms in this term but there's been a Sixpoint shift to the Reform Party and a 5% deficit from the labor party this appears to be red wall seats buyers regret you think that's something that s s needs to be mindful of particularly when we saw those riots happen in the seven most socially depraved towns of England and with the most Asylum Seekers is this working class problem something that sakir Starman are looking look in the eyes of yeah I think it's a it's a question for all of us to be honest as a society because communities and this this goes back to the brexit question even more which I hate talking about but you know it's all tied together communities like the one that I come from in the northeast of England um have been left left behind you know for for many many years I mean we're talking I mean let's be honest the last 50 years which government has really taking those communities seriously the de-industrialization in those communities things like pits closing factories closing that had a massive impact on the local communities and their their economies so there are problems there that are so deep that you cannot possibly solve by addressing them overnight um but hopefully I would hope the labor party takes that seriously because no other government seems to so far so they do have a chance to look at this but when it comes to addressing symptoms like concerns about immigration um concerns about two tier policing all of these things they're a symptom of a much bigger problem for me and and that bigger problem has to be addressed over time okay thanks for joining us always a pleasure James Matthew soon and thanks for coming on the show