Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has declared a "public safety crisis" as new migrant data has revealed illegal entrants into Britain are "24 times more likely" to go to prison than Britons.

The analysis by the Tories suggests the rate is much higher for the nationalities who make up the largest small boat arrivals, with the most common including Somalians, Afghans, Iraqis, Albanians and Iranians.

The figure is based on Census data on of the the 10,838 foreign criminals in prisons in England and Wales at the end of March.

Speaking to GB News, Chris Philp expressed his concern for the findings and claimed it is "not just a border security crisis, it's a public safety crisis as well".

Chris Philp has declared a 'public safety crisis' after new migrant data reveals illegal individuals are 24 times more likely to go to prison than Britons

Philp told host Martin Daubney: "We put these figures together by compiling three different data sources, that showed us that just over 3.5 per cent of Channel crossings are likely to end up in prison.

"And then you apply that 3.5 per cent to the numbers that have crossed this year, and you find that almost a thousand people who have crossed the Channel so far this year will end up in prison. So the Labour Government has let in what is likely to become a thousand criminals."

Highlighting the potential danger to British citizens, Philp stated: "It's the best we can do with the data available, but it does show they are far, far more likely to wind up in prison, 24 times more likely than the average British citizen.

"Just going to show that the British public are being exposed to criminality by the enormous numbers crossing the Channel. And that tells us this isn't just a border security crisis, it's a public safety crisis as well."

Small boat migrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen, new data has revealed

Pressed by host Martin Daubney on whether Britain needs a system where they reduce the number of people on the list of worst offending nationalities from entering the UK, Philp said any illegal migrants need to be "removed" to another country.

Philp explained: "When it comes to the boats, they need to be stopped completely. Every single person who crosses the Channel by small boat should be immediately removed to a location outside of Europe, whether that's Rwanda or somewhere else.

"And then pretty soon they'll stop coming, so those those small boat numbers need to be stopped completely. And on legal migration, the bar needs to be massively increased, and I acknowledge that the threshold needs to be massively increased for people coming to the country legally."

Calling for a "cap" on legal migration numbers, Philp told GB News: "We want people with very high levels of skill, we don't want people coming here to work in takeaway restaurants. That is not what the legal system should be used for. That needs to be stopped, frankly.

Philp told GB News that illegal migrants should be 'removed to somewhere outside of Europe'

"And we need to have a very hard cap on legal migration, voted for by Parliament each year at a very, very low level just to stop these large numbers of any nationality."

Reiterating the desire of the Conservatives to leave the ECHR, the Shadow Home Secretary concluded: "People who are here who are not British citizens and commit a crime, every single one upon conviction and after their prison sentence should be kicked out.

"And that's why we need to repeal the Human Rights Act, because it's the Human Rights Act and the ECHR which is stopping the Government from deporting all of these foreign criminals who also end up staying here."

A Home Office spokesman said: "The comparison of these two data sets is completely unfounded.

"It is inappropriate to apply foreign imprisonment rates to small boat arrival data as these consist of very different groups of people."