Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will double funding for Britain’s border security agency and treat people-smuggling gangs like terror networks. It's part of efforts to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats. Starmer is making a speech on Monday to the international police organization Interpol.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to journalists during a visit to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, in Coventry, England, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024.
Starmer plans to increase the U.K. Border Security Command’s two-year budget from 75 million pounds to 150 million pounds . The money will be used to fund high-tech surveillance equipment and 100 specialist investigators. Starmer leads a center-left government, and has raised some eyebrows in September when he visited Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and praised her nationalist conservative government’s “remarkable” progress in reducing the number of
The opposition Conservative Party argues that Starmer should not have scrapped the previous government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers who reach Britain by boat on. Supporters of the proposal say it would act as a deterrent. Human rights groups and many lawyers say it is unethical and unlawful to send migrants thousands of miles to a country they don’t want to live in.
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