Keir Starmer pledges to divert 75m from Rwanda scheme to fund new specialist officers to tackle people-smuggling with counter-terror powers.
Labour promises to create a new border security command, recruit additional special investigators, expand stop and search powers, and use Serious Crime Prevention Orders against people-smuggling suspects.
Natalie Elphicke, who defected to Labour, criticized Tory failures on border security, prompting Starmer's plan to address the issue with a new approach and additional resources.
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