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Daily Mail
14 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Labour is 'tinkering around the edges' with its £100m plans to crackdown on small boat migrant crossings, Tories warn
Labour has been accused of 'tinkering around the edges' with its plans to crackdown on small boat crossings. The Home Office has announced measures to get tough on smuggling gangs, despite more than 25,000 illegal arrivals so far this year – but the Tories branded them 'a series of gimmicks'. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper this weekend unveiled plans to introduce sentences of up to five years in prison for anyone who advertises small boat crossings or fake passports on social media. She said she would introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog, with a new law to overhaul the appeals system, in a bid to get decisions on cases within weeks. And today, the Home Office has announced £100 million of extra funding to support the pilot of the new 'one in, one out' returns agreement between the UK and France. It will also pay for up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers and new technology and equipment to step up intelligence gathering on smuggling gangs. And there will be more overtime for immigration compliance and enforcement teams as well as funding for interventions in transit countries. The deal, agreed last month, means the UK will be able to send migrants back to France in exchange for asylum seekers with links to Britain. But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp criticised the announcements. He told the Daily Mail last night: 'This weak Labour Government has come up with a series of gimmicks to grab headlines instead of fixing the issue. 'Tinkering around the edges which will make no real difference. 'There have been more than 25,000 illegal crossings so far this year, making it the worst year in history. 'Labour has failed and their laughable claim to smash the gangs lies in tatters. They have no serious plan, just excuses, while ruthless criminal gangs flood our borders with illegal immigrants.' A No 10 source hit back: 'The Tories focused on headlines and gimmickry, we're focused on what works. 'Through our returns deal with France, investment in a border security and speeding up returns, we're making steady progress.' Public anger over small boat crossings has focused on the issue of taxpayer-funded migrant hotels, which have been the centre of a series of protests in recent weeks including in London, Newcastle and Epping in Essex. Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick warned that 'the public's patience with the asylum hotels and with the whole issue of illegal migration has snapped'. In response, Dame Angela Eagle promised that the Government was 'doing the detailed work' to crack down on small boat crossings. Asked on Sky News what her message was to protesters, Dame Angela said: 'Anger doesn't get you anywhere. 'What we have to do is recognise the values we have in this country, the rule of law we have in this country, the work we're doing with the police to protect people. 'We will close asylum hotels by the end of the Parliament. We'll do it faster if we can.' Dame Angela also said: 'We are doing all we can to deal with the challenges that the police are facing on the streets to make sure that women and girls are safe, and in fact, that everybody is safe on our streets.' She had earlier told Times Radio: 'Those who are worried and demonstrating have an absolute right to do that, so long as they do it peacefully. 'People don't have a right to then have a pop at the police, which has been happening in some isolated cases outside hotels.' Referring to plans to let police seize devices from people suspected of facilitating people smuggling, Dame Angela said the Government does not 'want absolutely every phone'. She told Times Radio: 'But we do want the phones of the people that we think are organising and facilitating, and this extra money will enable us to do much quicker analytics of the phones that we seize. 'But of course, we've got to get the Border Security Bill on the statute book to give us those extra powers.' The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill has cleared the Commons but must undergo further scrutiny in the Lords before it becomes law. Turning to social media creators who advertise illegal routes into the UK, Dame Angela said: 'We will stop anyone who comes to the UK where we've got evidence, and what happens is that the people smugglers are getting people to say how safe the journeys were and do adverts once they're in the UK. 'We will stop that, and we will also deal with other jurisdictions and ask them to help us deal with this as well, we could certainly do that in the EU with our colleagues in Germany, in France.' Where there is 'evidence that legal routes to visas are being misused', the Government will 'tighten up the rules to stop that abuse happening', the minister added. The National Crime Agency has 91 ongoing investigations into people smuggling networks affecting the UK, the agency's director general of operations Rob Jones said. But speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Jenrick said: 'The public's patience with the asylum hotels and with the whole issue of illegal migration has snapped. 'This is an issue that is beyond party politics. 'It is causing immense harm to communities, and people's lives are being wrecked as a result of it, and we simply have to fix it. 'I respect those people who are peacefully protesting outside hotels this weekend, I understand why they feel so concerned. 'They're seeing their communities damaged, and I'm afraid there is increasing evidence of a serious link between illegal migration, migration generally, and crime, particularly sexual crime, against women and girls.'
The Sun
an hour ago
- The Sun
Putin's ‘secret daughter' cryptically says Vlad ‘destroyed her life' & ‘killed millions' as she lives in exile
VLADIMIR Putin's rumoured secret daughter has broken her silence on the Russian dictator for the first time with cryptic social media posts. Elizaveta Krivonogikh, 22, also known as Luiza Rozova, vented about a man who "destroyed" her life and revealed her feelings about Russia's war in Ukraine. 5 5 Luiza, an art school graduate living in Paris, alluded to "the man who took millions of lives and destroyed mine" - seemingly a bitter rebuke of her reported father. In another post, she wrote: 'It's liberating to be able to show my face to the world again. "It reminds me of who I am and who destroyed my life," reports Bild, which has a reporter with access to the woman's private Telegram channel "Art of Luiza". The posts do not explicitly name Putin, but in the context of widespread reports about her father's identity can be understood as a direct dig at the tyrant. On her Instagram account, Luiza had been ensuring to hide her face, but lately she has shared full photos of herself. She does not specify when or where the photos were taken, but the most recent is in the Russian café chain "Surf Coffee". Luiza was born on March 3, 2003, in St Petersburg and is believed to be the child of an affair between Putin and his former cleaner Svetlana Krivonogich. Claims about the identity of her father were first made public by the the Kremlin-critical investigative project "Proekt" back in 2020. Her mother reportedly became very wealthy in the wake of her birth - fuelling speculation that the money had come from Putin in order to buy her silence. Luiza previously had visible social media accounts in Russia, which showed her whizzing around the world in private jets, DJing in exclusive clubs and wearing designer gear. Intelligence chief says Putin 'getting more sickly by the day' as tyrant wains in power But then, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, her account was suddenly deleted. She has since moved to Paris, and graduated from the ICART School of Cultural and Art Management in June 2024. After leaving Russia, she lamented on Telegram: "I can't make an extra lap around my beloved St. Petersburg. "I can't visit my favourite places and establishments." Who is Luiza Rozova? LUIZA Rozova, born Elizaveta Krivonogikh, is the 22-year-old rumoured illegitimate daughter of Vladimir Putin. She is allegedly the love child from an affair between the dictator and his former cleaner, Svetlana Krivonogikh. These claims were first made by the Kremlin-critical investigative project "Proekt" back in 2020. She often used to share details of her lavish life on Instagram, until the page was suddenly taken down around the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Luiza is reported to have moved to Paris and graduated from a course at the ICART School of Cultural and Art Management in June 2024. She posts in a private Telegram channel called "Art of Luiza", where she has made allusions to her reported father. Lately her digital footprint has re-emerged with a much-changed image. She seems to have become more political and speaks openly against the war in Ukraine - and now denounces luxury. Reports say she is working at L Galerie in Belleville and Espace Albatros in Montreuil - both art galleries in Paris which host anti-war exhibitions. She has also adopted the name Elizaveta Rudnova - apparently after Oleg Rudnov, one of Putin's late cronies, in an attempt to conceal her true identity. Her role as gallery manager is said to include helping to organise shows and make videos. But Luiza's attempt to slot into dissident circles in Paris has not gone without resistance. 5 5 Artist Nastya Rodionova, who fled Russia in 2022, issued a furious statement and cut her ties with the two galleries Luiza is associated with. In a Facebook post, she wrote: 'It's important to say that I believe in the presumption of innocence and that children are not responsible for the crimes of their parents. 'But with the war reaching its heights it is inadmissible to allow a person who comes from a family of beneficiaries of [Putin's] regime to come into confrontation with the victims of that regime. 'We need to know who we are working with and decide whether we are ready for that. My personal answer in this case is no.' Luiza has defended her position and wrote: "Am I really responsible for the activities of my family, who can't even hear me?" Dmitry Dolinsky, director of L Association which controls Studio Albatros and L Galerie, backed Luiza's involvement. He told The Times: 'She looks like Putin but so do 100,000 other people. I haven't seen a DNA test.' Other insiders backed her, calling her a 'cultured person' and 'excellent worker'. But Rodionova hit back, insisting that victims of the war shouldn't be forced to share space with anyone tied to the regime – alleged daughter or not. Rudnova's mother, Svetlana Krivonogikh, was sanctioned by the UK in 2023 and linked to Putin's inner circle by independent Russian media.
The Independent
4 hours ago
- The Independent
Government commits extra £100m to stopping small boat crossings
The UK government has announced an additional £100 million investment to tackle illegal migration and reduce small boat crossings. The funding will enable the recruitment of up to 300 more National Crime Agency officers and provide new technology for intelligence gathering on people-smuggling gangs. It will also support the 'one in, one out' returns agreement with France and fund interventions in key transit countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. New measures include a proposed five-year prison sentence for individuals advertising illegal Channel crossings or fake passports online. The announcement follows record numbers of Channel crossings, with 25,000 arrivals recorded so far this year.
