The two countries seek to increase number of seizures and prosecutions of people-smuggling gangs behind boat and motor trade ...

The Home Office, headed up by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, is understood to have ramped ... Just three in ten asylum claims are now made by small boat arrivals, compared with four in ten the ...

The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, says it will take time to get investigators and ... The people who organise the operations, commission the boats and promise entry to the UK via rubber dinghy. We ...

The Home Secretary has said the government is “going to try and make progress as rapidly as possible” on small boat crossings ... set to see its funding doubled. Yvette Cooper did not commit to ...

Over 600 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats, just one day after a baby ... Earlier this month, Home Secretary ...

Home Secretary Yvette ... Channel migrant crossings. Ms Cooper admitted “we do believe that significant progress is needed” after October saw the highest number of small boat arrivals this ...

Addressing Interpol’s General Assembly on Monday, the prime minister said that addressing the migrant ... Yvette Cooper told Sky News: “No one should be making these dangerous boat crossings.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told how the new Government is seeking to build up a ‘fast track’ system for asylum claims ...

Two more migrants have lost their lives while trying to cross the English Channel, bringing the total number of deaths for ...