Watch Keir Starmer outline Labor plan to tackle small boat crossings

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Watch Sir Keir Starmer deliver a speech on Labour's small boat policy from Dover on Friday May 10.

Labour will use new powers anti-terrorists to fight against terrorism. smuggling gangs ferrying migrants across the Channel, Sir Keir announced.

In a speech on the Kent coast, the Labor leader outlined his party's plans to tackle the child crisis boats if he wins the general election.

Sir Keir said Labor would "replace gimmicks with bribes", abandoning the government's Rwanda project and using some of the money saved to fund a new "command of “border security elite” led by a former police, military or intelligence officer. leader.

Attacking the government's approach as "gross incompetence", he dismissed the Rwandan project as incapable of providing an effective deterrent and accused the conservatives of operating a “Travelodge amnesty” by housing migrants in hotels rather than hotels. processing their requests.

Sir Keir also highlighted his experience as former head of the Crown Prosecution Service and pledged to make Britain “hostile territory” for people smugglers.< /p>