Andy Burnham has barely settled into 10 Downing Street, but Britain’s worsening small-boat crisis has already become one of the biggest tests of his new government.
The new prime minister entered office promising a “circuit breaker” moment for Britain and describing his government as the beginning of the “biggest changes in 40 years.” Yet within days, the Channel migration crisis was producing numbers that gave his political opponents plenty of ammunition.
Then President Donald Trump weighed in.
