People-smuggling gangs should be treated like terrorists, Starmer to tell global summit

Prime minister to urge world leaders to work together to stop criminal gangs as small boat crossings continue to rise

People-smugglers should be treated like terrorists, Keir Starmer will say on Monday, as he hosts an international summit on organised migration crime in London.

Starmer will urge representatives from more than 40 countries to cooperate across national borders to stop smugglers just as they did to stop terrorists when he was director of public prosecutions more than a decade ago.