Britain will create a new sanctions regime to target the leaders of networks that smuggle tens of thousands of people into Britain each year, as well as the often-Chinese makers of the boats and motors they use,

Britain says it will impose sanctions on members of people-smuggling gangs who send migrants crossing the English Channel to the U.K. in flimsy boats

Keir Starmer plans to set up a sanctions regime targeting people smugglers as the UK prime minister seeks to deliver on an electoral pledge to “smash the gangs” helping asylum seekers enter the country via irregular routes.