Labour has been accused of 'tinkering around the edges' with its plans to crackdown on small boat crossings.
The Home Office has announced measures to get tough on smuggling gangs, despite more than 25,000 illegal arrivals so far this year – but the Tories branded them 'a series of gimmicks'.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper this weekend unveiled plans to introduce sentences of up to five years in prison for anyone who advertises small boat crossings or fake passports on social media.
She said she would introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog, with a new law to overhaul the appeals system, in a bid to get decisions on cases within weeks.
And today, the Home Office has announced £100 million of extra funding to support the pilot of the new 'one in, one out' returns agreement between the UK and France.
