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

Yvette Cooper said that criminal gangs were the target as the border security command is set to see its funding doubled.

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.

Migrant smugglers will be fast-tracked through the courts like the summer rioters under a crackdown to curb Channel crossings to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer on Monday. The Prime Minister will ...

The Government is also “watching closely” a scheme where migrant people heading to ... success in dealing with the “small boats” crisis. Ms Cooper said high numbers of crossings in October ...

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

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 ...