Yvette Cooper hails new French tactics to reduce Channel crossings | Immigration and asylum
Yette Cooper praised new tactics used by the French to reduce the number of people passing the channel in small boats that were likely to be announced before Emmanuel Macron’s visit this week.
Understood French review The police continued to talk about how the police could intervene in order to prevent boats in water and what could be done more this weekend this weekend.
In the French Police on Friday, at the time of their usual practice, which they did not try to stop boats in water. used knife Pierce a boat in shallow seas near Boulogne in Northern France.
If the legal examination offers more scope for such a direct action, it is possible for French patrol boats to return the crafts carrying asylum seekers or use other tactics such as Jetskis spreading networks that will capture propellers.
French President Macron began a state visit to England on Tuesday, and focused on royal events, including staying at Windsor Castle.
On Thursday, he is scheduled to see Keir Starmer for an Anglo-French summit, and the couple speaking on Saturday morning is expected to announce new collaborative measures on small boats.
In the comments published at the weekend, Interior Minister Cooper said that working with the French was “vital to stop the passing of boats in the first place”.
He said: “For the last few months, we are working together on the new ways of destroying the criminal gang operations, the French now brings important new tactics to stop the boats in the water.”
Another idea that is still discussed is the “one, an exit” plan for another asylum seeker who accepts another asylum seekers other than France, which is seen to have the right to claim asylum rights in the UK, in England.
Hope is that a larger combination of the possibility of standing in water and the possibility of returning to France even if the transition is successful can determine people to pay them to pay the smugglers.
However, it is still unknown whether the plan of “one, an exit” is ready to be explained on time for Macron’s visit, and British authorities are still “too many moving parts”.
“We want to do it right,” he said. “It would be ideal to sign during the visit, but it would be even more ideal to make sure it was working properly.”
Starmer and Cooper face continuous political pressure to reduce the number of people coming along the channel. Despite the promise that a government “smashed göksel the gangs regulating transitions, more than 20,000 people passed to England in the first six months of this year and increased by 48% in 2024.
