Burnham to be ‘relentless’ on small boat crossings after Ceuta crisis

Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledges to be relentless on small boat crossings, following tens of thousands of migrants arriving in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa. Per The Guardian, Burnham stressed that the UK must bring back control—though safe routes for refugees remain necessary to dismantle trafficking operations. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez assured him that roughly ninety-eight percent of the fifty thousand migrants who entered Ceuta last week have since been returned to Morocco.

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