Britain's border management framework has come under fierce criticism from Henry Bolton, who revealed alarming figures about deportation rates.
Speaking to GB News, the International Border Security and Border Control expert claimed Sir Keir Starmer's "one in, one out" deal with France currently removes approximately one individual for each 263 people entering the country.
GB News can reveal that the total migrant crossings so far this year has passed the grim milestone of total crossings for 2024.
More than 200 migrants crossed the Channel today alone, taking the total for this year to 36,956.
Henry Bolton has offered stark deportation figures as he tears into Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal with France
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Delivering his verdict on the exchange deal with the French, Mr Bolton told GB News: "It's not working at all, and nor was it ever going to.
"And the entire thing I couldn't help feeling, and I said it many times when it was first being introduced, that actually it's just a political sort of way of appeasing the British population who was saying 'for God's sake, do something about it'."
Offering his stark calculations of the deportation rate, he added: "It was never going to be effective. It's basically working out at the moment to around about for every 263 that are brought in, we're sending one out, something like that, so it's not one in, one out by any means.
"And the deterrent factor is zero, and the smashing the business gangs model is laughable."
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The total number of arrivals so far this year has exceeded 36,886 | PAMr Bolton raised questions about the Government's genuine commitment to addressing border issues.
He stated: "Does the Government actually want to do this or not?
"It's a difficult one, because I think some people in the Labour Party do want to address this, but there are others whose votes and constituency is absolutely in a different camp."
Highlighting one aspect of border control that Britain "lacks", the expert explained: "One of the things that the United Kingdom lacks and many other countries have got, I've helped 14 different other countries to do this, is to develop and implement a fully integrated and comprehensive cross-Government national strategy to manage our borders.
"Now how that happens, it's got to incorporate land, sea, and we have got land, the tunnel is a land border, crossing land, sea and air borders, but also at the international, regional and national levels as well as locally."
Mr Bolton told GB News that Labour needs a 'whole Government approach' to protecting Britain's borders
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Me Bolton continued: "Because every part of our coast is different, there's a whole range of different threats, it's not just about people. I keep reminding people about that, all of the cocaine, all of the heroin in this country comes across our borders.
"So we've got to have a whole of Government approach here. And to do that, you've got to have somebody who is above one single Government department to pull it together."
He concluded: "Because otherwise, in my experience, what you have is you have different Government people, subordinate people, whether they're police officers or working for a border agency or an intelligence agency subordinate to a junior minister, it's subordinate to a secretary of state, subordinate to whoever, all trying to to coordinate something.
"It doesn't work because they have to keep sending decisions up their chains."