British Starmer blames him for lack of joint action when trying to stop immigration across channels
LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday there was a lack of coordination between British police and intelligence agencies, part of the number of immigrants causing the UK to arrive in the UK along the British channel.
At an international conference on improving border security and taking over crowds, Starmer was frustrated and it was difficult to stop the dangers of thousands of people risking the oceans over France every year.
“We inherited this complete division between policing, border forces and intelligence agencies,” Steamer said. “When I looked at it, this dispersion made a gap in our defense, and it was a publicly invited person on our border to get people smugglers to go.”
Starmer’s central left government was elected nine months ago and is working to address the problems of his conservative predecessors.
Despite law enforcement cooperation with France and the cooperation with authorities in various countries further along the route taken by African, Asian and Middle East immigration, more than 6,600 migrants crossed the channels in the first three months of this year, the highest number on record.
Opposition conservatives say the figure shows that Labour should not abolish the controversy of the last government and never achieved – plans to send asylum seekers who travel to Rwanda by boat.
Starmer called Rwanda’s plan “the head” and canceled it shortly after being elected in July. The UK paid hundreds of millions of pounds to Rwanda without any deportation under a deal signed by the two countries in 2022.
Monday’s meeting was actually spoken by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose far-right government opened a centre in Albania to hold some asylum seekers while handling their claims – a project that has received close attention from the Steamer administration.
Meloni said the plan was “at first criticized” but “a growing consensus has been reached that today the EU is proposing a return hub in a third country.”
The governments of Albania, Vietnam and Iraq also represent a large number of British asylum seekers.
Starmer said the organized population should be treated the same way as the terrorist gangs and has been criticized by refugee groups and some labor supporters because his difficult immigration method is irregular.
But he said: “Nothing is clear about it, nothing progressive or compassionate. Continuing this false hope will attract people on these journeys.
“This evil trade exploits the cracks between our institutions, bringing countries against each other and bringing together profits that we are powerless on a political level,” Starmer said.
“We have to combine our resources, share intelligence and tactics, and solve problems upstream from every step of the people’s smuggling route.”
