Starmer gives speech about ‘severity’ of illegal migration threat at Glasgow’s Interpol meeting – UK politics live

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Starmer told the Interpol general assembly that that UK increasing its funding for Interpol projects by £6m this year.

He said this would include “support for improved data sharing and faster communications capabilities, the first ever global fraud threat assessment and new regional networks, from strengthening cooperation across the Pacific to tackling drug and gun smuggling networks in the Caribbean”.

Crime is global. Criminals do not respect borders.

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