
Starmer to Sign Border Security Deal With Beijing to Target Small Boat Crossings
The UK aims to work with China to track smuggling routes, share intelligence, and stop maritime equipment from reaching criminal gangs.

The UK aims to work with China to track smuggling routes, share intelligence, and stop maritime equipment from reaching criminal gangs.

Sussex Police detained two men and a woman after a vehicle was obstructed and attacked during protests outside a former army barracks in Crowborough, South East England.

The British activists are accused of “searching for and destroying small boats,” the small makeshift vessels used by migrants to reach England from the French coast.

Dozens of lawbreakers crossed the English Channel in sub-zero temperatures, following near-record numbers of illegal arrivals in 2025.

Several boats carrying over 400 people have set out from France, with some already reaching UK territory.

In a recent interview, the Rassemblement National leader lays out his border-first agenda, his break with Brussels—and why he thinks the political map of Europe is about to be ripped up.

Channel crossings have surpassed figures from last year, while the policy to deport illegals is failing spectacularly.

The illegal Channel migrant with a Kalashnikov rifle facial tattoo rages at the court as he is sent down for five years.

The first deportation under the agreement signals London’s crackdown on illegal Channel crossings, with France soon to start its own returns programme.

Amid rising pressure to address illegal migration, the UK PM plans to shift asylum-seeking military-age males from hotels to disused military sites.