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The Latest Breaking News from the Border Security Command

Home Office border security chief quits after failing to bring down small boat crossings

Almost 60,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats since Martin Hewitt was appointed

Evening Standard

UK border security chief to step down as government fails to get a grip on small boats crisis

Sir Keir Starmer appointed Martin Hewitt, a former senior police officer, shortly after Labour took power

The Independent UK

Labour minister admits he was wrong to claim most small boats migrants are 'babies, children and women'

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones faced mounting criticism after his erroneous comments on BBC Question Time

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Minister agrees small boats crossings mainly men after Question Time claim

Darren Jones faced criticism after suggesting on the BBC’s Question Time that the majority of small boats crossings are ‘children, babies and women’.

Evening Standard

Border Security Chief Vows to Crush Smuggling Gangs with Global Crackdown

The head of the Border Security Command has pledged to dismantle international smuggling gangs, calling for a united global effort to end their deadly trade.

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Government will ‘try to make progress as rapidly as possible’ on small boats

Yvette Cooper said that criminal gangs were the target as the border security command is set to see its funding doubled.

Evening Standard

Starmer to pledge more cash for border command in blitz on small boats

The Prime Minister will use a speech to Interpol to tell the world to ‘wake up to the severity of this challenge’.

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UK politics live: Wes Streeting hints budget cuts will go further than axing winter fuel payment

The Tory leadership contender has drawn criticism for her comments

The Independent UK

Yvette Cooper facing backlash over immigration crackdown as plans to ramp up deportations revealed

Home secretary also criticised over plans to reopen two troubled immigration detention centres, Campsfield in Oxfordshire and Haslar in Hampshire

The Independent UK

Thousands more asylum seekers and economic migrants set to cross Channel this summer, No10 signals

Crossings resumed on Monday after a six-day hiatus amid poor weather conditions at sea

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