Labour’s new border security unit faces major challenges, as campaigners warn they need a better plan for safe routes
Children picked up at sea trying to cross the English Channel from France are helped to disembark from a Border Force vessel in Dover on 12 June.Children picked up at sea trying to cross the English Channel from France are helped to disembark from a Border Force vessel in Dover on 12 June.
Moreton says that officials are waiting to see what the new body will look like, and expects it to take several months to set up, adding: “We don’t know what the manifesto promises mean in practice.” The official took issue with the Labour manifesto description of the small boats crisis as “fuelled by dangerous criminal smuggler gangs”, saying that smugglers were “offering an illegal service to those in need” because of an absence of alternative ways for refugees to reach Britain.
Labour has pledged to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers, but has also opposed the controversial use of military bases and theThe new government also promised to “restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly”, and plans to bring forward new legislation to override the Conservatives’ Illegal Migration Act, which stopped the processing of more than 50,000 claims from small-boat migrants.
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