Keir Starmer vows to stop people-smuggling gangs with tactics used to jail rioters

Prime minister held a summit attended by National Crime Agency, Border Force and senior ministers

Keir Starmer has pledged to break up people-smuggling gangs in the same manner used to apprehend and jail hundreds of rioters this summer.

After a meeting with law enforcement agencies and cabinet ministers to discuss plans to stop small boats crossing the Channel on Friday, the prime minister said that the high-level summit" mirrored the approach taken after disturbances fuelled by far-right activists.