People smuggling is seeing a crackdown in the UK after roughly 37,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats last year. The new criminal offence will see tough consequences for individuals involved ...

Labour’s latest attempt to stop small boat migrant Channel crossings will not work, one of the party’s own MPs has said.

Labour MP Jess Phillips, who is now a minister in the Home Office, was once one of the most vocal opponents of the plan ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the new laws will ‘turbocharge efforts to smash the gangs’ smuggling migrants across the ...