British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are focusing on stopping migrant crossings in the English Channel

Nigel Farage was also on a boat in the Channel and said he saw 78 migrants, including four women and children, crossing the water accompanied by a French vessel. “This is a classic day in the English Channel over the last five years when the weather’s calm, or a red day, as they call it,” the Reform UK leader told GB News .

According to the HM coastguard, Border Force vessels were sent to respond to multiple migrant boats on Thursday morning.