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People smugglers offering illegal migrants festive discounts on Channel crossings

The adverts come amid a brewing Tory civil war over the ailing Rwanda scheme

GANGS are offering illegal migrants festive discounts on Channel crossings.

Ads for people smugglers’ cut-price deals have appeared on social media.

CORRECTED VERSION: THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, ENGLAND - AUGUST 24: In this aerial view, A boat carrying around 50 migrants drifts into English waters after being escorted by a French emergency tug, the Abeille Normandie (L) and the MCS Taku, a British vessel used to collect discarded dinghies (R), from the French coastline on August 24, 2023 The English Channel, England. Most of the small boats are collected on the border by UK Border Force vessels and brought into Dover port, after french naval ships accompany them to the border. Another boat then collects the small rubber crafts and loads them to be taken to a UK border Force facility. Over 100,000 migrants have crossed the Channel from France to England on small boats since the UK began publicly recording the arrivals in 2018. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Accounts on social media have advertised journeys at reduced prices over the festive periodCredit: Getty

One Albanian advert on TikTok boasts of a “100 per cent success rate” for entry into the UK.

Another account advertised journeys that normally cost £8,000 per person for £5,000 over Christmas.

Meanwhile on Instagram, a page offered a space on a lorry at a “sale price” for a December 20 trip.

Another post read: “One person, £6,000. Two people, £5,000 each.”

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One ad even offers to smuggle people in by plane for £14,000 per person.

It comes after MPs warned gangs will use the Tory civil war over immigration as part of their marketing campaigns.

Last week Rishi Sunak faced the first parliamentary hurdle for his emergency Bill to rescue the ailing Rwanda scheme.

It was dealt a blow as the Minister in charge of it, Robert Jenrick, resigned and said it will not work.

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