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‘A wasted opportunity to do what is really needed’
Starmer's ‘Organised Immigration Crime Summit’ fails to find the simple solution to upend human smugglers’ business model: safe routes
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussion at the Organised Immigration Crime Summit at Lancaster House in central London, March 31, 2025

SIR KEIR STARMER faced a backlash from refugee groups today after claiming a lack of co-ordination on illegal migration has given people-smugglers an “open invitation” to send migrants to Britain.

The Prime Minister said that he was “shocked” at the fragmentation between police, Border Force and intelligence agencies as he convened an anti-immigration summit at Lancaster House involving 40 countries.

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