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Keir Starmer has been urged to “completely overhaul” the UK’s “broken asylum system” after 12 migrants lost their lives trying to cross the Channel. The small boat migrants were killed on Tuesday after their boat capsized and included a pregnant woman and six children. Following the incident, France’s interior minister claimed Britain’s ‘soft-touch’ rules were to blame for the latest Channel disaster. Gérald Darmanin said in his statement the UK was a place “where you can work without papers and where you have little chance of being expelled”. Darmanin has reportedly called for a UK-EU migrati…