Claim: Over three quarters of migrants crossed by small boats in 2021.
Fact-check: Telegraph 'migrant' graph only captures fraction of arrivals in the UK - Full Fact
Verdict: false. this is the proportion of people who arrived via irregular routes, who arrived on a small boat, not the proportion of all migrants. it excludes hundreds of thousands of people who moved to the uk to live, study and work in 2021.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2022-08-16T00:00:00