Keir Starmer met EU’s policing body Europol in the Hague today as he laid out, for the first time, Labour’s alternative vision to tackle the small boats crisis – or, in his own words, his plan to “restore the security of Britain’s borders.”
The Labour leader vowed to crack down on people-smuggling gangs both through deepening intelligence ties with Europe and with a legal reclassification: Labour would treat people smugglers like terrorists by giving the National Crime Agency expanded powers to freeze their assets and place restrictions on their movement.
