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Sir Keir Starrer has admitted that the crisis of the small boats in the English Channel, despite his election promise to “smash” people in Great Britain, “deteriorate”.
The British Prime Minister met French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday at the G7 summit in Canada, where the two guides agreed to increase the cooperation in several political areas at the UK France summit in London next month.
Number 10 said the leaders confirmed that “migration should be a major focus in view of the deteriorating situation in the canal” and “that they should continue to work closely with other partners to find innovative ways to advance progress”.
The comments are a rare approval of the Labor government that is trying to achieve one of the most important political priorities Take on small boat transitions.
Chris Philp, Shadow Minister of the Interior, said that the sewer crisis led by rigidity “got out of control”.
“The gangs laugh, the boats come again and again and Labor’s reaction is to form a different task force and keep a summit. It is weak and embarrassing,” said the MP.
Since he has become Prime Minister, Rigid has canceled a deportation system of the previous conservative government based in Rwanda.
Instead, he said that his priority was to “smash” the gangs, transport people over the channel on small boats, with measures being used such as a new “border security command”.
He also sworn to accelerate the return of irregular migrants to their home countries in order to reduce the increasing costs for the support of asylum seekers and foreign national criminals.
So far, 16,545 people have reached Great Britain in small boats this year, which is 45 percent higher than last year. Last week 1,733 people crossed the channel on small boats.
The number of intersections increases in the summer months, in which the weather is warmer and the lake is calmer.
The figures will probably raise questions about the likelihood of the government’s ability to meet their ambition to save £ 1 billion by drastically reducing the number of asylum seekers who are waiting for the claims to be processed and end the use of hotels to take them up.
On Tuesday, Starer reporters announced on the G7 that an option was to become a “transaction” in visas with countries in which no return contract with Great Britain had to grow.
“We made a number of bilateral return gaps,” said Starrer. “So the question is again whether it is possible to go a little beyond.”
The United Kingdom has no return regulations with France or other EU countries and increases the ghost as to whether the United Kingdom wants to reduce the visual figures for qualified EU workers or students if it does not agree that it does not agree to a deal.
The intersections have increased, although the French police used more aggressive tactics to prevent migrants from leaving beaches, including the use of batons and tear gas.
The French Ministry of the Interior said that the increase was due to the fact that smugglers put more people on every boat instead of a decline in interceptions or an increase in boats that leave France.
A favorable weather and the increase in the number of people who come from the horn of Africa have also led to more intersections.
Legally, France can only intercept a boat that is already at sea to provide help, the ministry said in comments that were made before Starrer’s comments.
France tries to develop a new framework in summer that would enable the authorities to intercept taxi boats in flat waters up to 300 meters from the coast.
The Ministry of the Interior refused to comment on the comments from Starrer in the G7. The Elysée did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Great Britain and France have an extensive border control partnership called the Touquet agreement, according to the Great Britain between 2023 and 2026 in an exchange for more intensive surveillance of the channel to France.
“As the Prime Minister said yesterday, he increased the world’s leading work in Great Britain at sanctions with President Macron and added that he was looking forward to continuing this work,” said Downing Street on Tuesday.
Data visualization of Amy Borrett
