Is it really possible to “smash” the smuggling gangs?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is hosting a summit aimed at smashing the criminal gangs that send the boats across the Channel.
On the Sky News Daily Niall Paterson speaks to Rob Lawrie, former British Army soldier, aid volunteer, and people smuggling investigator for the podcast series To Catch a Scorpion and The Smugglers' Trail.
He’s also joined by Danny Shaw, former adviser to Yvette Cooper and crime commentator, to discuss how the new government will deal with illegal migration.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:06.4 | Neil Patterson here with the Sky News Daily. Do hope that this finds you well. |
| 1:16.8 | In the past few days, we have seen the greatest loss of life in the channel this year. |
| 1:21.1 | Six children and a pregnant woman were among the 12 who died on Tuesday after their boat sank off the French coast. |
| 1:23.9 | 30 had already perished trying to get to the UK in 2024. |
| 1:28.5 | And that's the highest total that we have seen in three years. |
| 1:32.5 | The event had been in the diary before the fatalities, |
| 1:35.1 | but today the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, is hosting a summit |
| 1:38.5 | aimed at smashing the criminal gangs that send the boats across the channel. |
| 1:43.2 | Just a little later, I'll be speaking to |
| 1:44.8 | Danny Shaw, who actually advised Labour on its strategy. But we begin with Rob Lorry, a former soldier |
| 1:51.6 | turned aid worker who presented the podcast series to catch a scorpion about his hunt for one of the |
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