EU safety laws could be used to seize the boats used to bring migrant boats before they reach the Channel in a new National Crime Agency plan to stem the flow of asylum seekers being shipped to Britain.
Graeme Biggar, the NCA’s director general, said his agency believed the much larger “flimsy, unseaworthy” vessel now being used by criminal gangs to transport up to 80 migrants at a time were in breach of safety regulations issued by Brussels.
