Starmer to highlight Labour plans to tackle Channel crossings

Party believes Rishi Sunak is vulnerable on issue of small boat crossings and immigration

Keir Starmer is to highlight Labour's policies to combat small boat crossings by asylum seekers, as the party sees the issue as a way in which it can address a perceived Conservative advantage on immigration issues, it has emerged.

The Labour leader will meet officials from Europol, the EU's cross-border law enforcement organisation, in The Hague on Wednesday to discuss his party's proposals to limit numbers crossing the Channel to the UK unofficially.