UK leader Starmer tells Interpol he will treat people-smuggling gangs like terrorists
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will double funding for Britain’s border security agency and treat people-smuggling gangs like terror networks in an attempt to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.
Watch: Keir Starmer announces Labour’s plan to tackle people smuggling
Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer announced Labour’s plan to tackle people smuggling on Monday (4 November) at the Interpol General Assembly in Glasgow. The prime minister and home secretary both spoke at the Interpol General Assembly at the start of a week-long blitz on small boat crossings that will also see Sir Keir in Hungary for talks on tackling people smuggling.
Starmer plans to ‘treat people smugglers like terrorists’ to cut crossings
Sir Keir Starmer said the Government will “treat people smugglers like terrorists” as he announced a further £75 million for his border security command.
People smugglers to be 'treated like terrorists' in small boats crackdown, vows Keir Starmer
We're going to treat people smugglers like terrorists,’ the Prime Minister told the Interpol general assembly in Glasgow
'UK will treat people smugglers like terrorists,’ says PM Keir Starmer
UK prime minister Keir Starmer said his government will “treat people smugglers like terrorists” as he announced a further £75m (€89m) for his border security command.
Starmer Urges World to Treat People Smugglers Like Terrorists
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged international allies to treat people-smugglers like terrorists as he sought to adopt a hard line on irregular migration, a policy concern that’s caused a surge in right-wing support across Western countries.
World needs to 'wake up' to people smuggling threat: UK's Starmer
People smuggling should be put on a par with global terrorism, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, as he pushed for closer international cooperation to tackle the issue.
UK leader tells Interpol meeting world must 'wake up' to threat from people-smugglers
People-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the English Channel in small boats are a serious threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told an international law-enforcement conference on Monday.
Keir Starmer told smuggling gangs are 'laughing at you' after 17,000 migrants enter UK
Robert Jenrick, the new shadow justice secretary, mocked Sir Keir over his latest crackdown on migrant small boat Channel crossings as he claimed "the people smugglers are laughing at you". The Prime Minister insisted his £150million package of measures designed to stop the boats as he repeated his pledge to treat the smuggling gangs the same as terrorists.
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