Rishi Sunak negotiated a £490 million deal with the French to double the number of officers on the beaches, pay for more surveillance equipment such as drones and build a detention and processing facility for the migrants.
While on his trip to Nato on Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer admitted that the small boats crisis could get worse before it gets better and that numbers coming across the Channel are going up, not down.
The Prime Minister scrapped Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme on his first day in office, with the money to be diverted to a new border security command, which will oversee the recruitment of hundreds of new officers and investigators tasked to smash the people-smuggling gangs
Fast-track deportations
The Labour Party also pledged to set up a new enforcement and returns unit to negotiate new agreements to be able to remove migrants and to fast-track deportations.
Sir Keir has said he will seek to negotiate a new deal to be able to return migrants to the EU, which some officials believe is critical to deterring people from crossing. Britain has hinted it would be prepared to accept unaccompanied migrant children and asylum seekers with family connections in return.