Yvette Cooper has announced new laws as sources revealed the biggest boat detected crossing the Channel had a staggering 120 ...

Labour MP Jess Phillips, who is now a minister in the Home Office, was once one of the most vocal opponents of the plan ...

Immigration authorities are to be given much stronger powers, inspired by those used to prevent terrorism, in an effort to tackle deadly small boat crossings in the English Channel.

This includes stronger powers to seize and search mobile phones to investigate organised immigration crime and introducing new offences against gangs conspiring to plan crossings, selling or handling ...

The home secretary’s border security bill is an admission of powerlessness – and the attorney general has confirmed it, writes John Rentoul ...

The Government is expected to seek to bring the measures into force as soon as possible once the legislation is approved by ...

Kelvin MacKenzie has claimed that Labour's proposed laws to tackle illegal migration and people smuggling gangs will "not be ...

The UK government refused to commit to reducing the number of asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats even ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also outlined plans to make endangering another life during a sea crossing to the UK a new offence carrying a five-year jail term under the Border Security, Asylum & ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the new laws will ‘turbocharge efforts to smash the gangs’ smuggling migrants across the Channel ...

The UK government introduced legislation Thursday designed to give law enforcement officials "counter-terror style powers" to break up gangs bringing irregular migrants across the Channel in flimsy ...

Border officials will also get powers to seize migrants' phones, under new laws unveiled by the Home Office.