Sir Keir Starmer is in Albania to announce an expanded crackdown on migrant smuggling gangs in the Balkans - a key staging post on the route to Britain.

The British prime minister is raising the requirements in concert with an immigration crackdown to end the U.K.'s "failed experiment in open borders."

In Monday’s Downing Street speech, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pledged that his Labour government would “take back control of our borders” and “tighten up every area of the immigration system”. The speech was met with backlash as some claimed it echoed the racially charged Rivers of Blood speech made by Enoch Powell in 1968.

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China has criticised the UK-US trade deal in a major blow to Keir Starmer’s bid to improve relations with the communist country. Beijing said it was a “basic principle” that such agreements should not target other nations.

Keir Starmer says suspected arson on properties in north London are 'attack on all of us' - Tory leader told PMQs that she was ‘horrified’ by the alleged incidents

Sir Keir Starmer will try to revive his failing attempts to crack down on illegal migration on Thursday as small boat crossings continue to surge. During a visit to Albania, the Prime Minister is hoping to beef up efforts with the country to tackle people smuggling gangs.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer branded the Tories a 'dead party walking' and slammed leader Kemi Badenoch’s criticism of the Government’s recent trade deals with India and the US