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Sir Keir Starmer will today set out Labour’s plans to tackle illegal immigration – but is it any better than Rishi Sunak’s plan? Vote in our poll below. Labour will use new counter-terrorism powers to tackle people-smuggling gangs bringing migrants across the Channel in small boats. Starmer will vow to “replace gimmicks with graft”, scrapping the Government’s Rwanda scheme and using some of the money saved to fund a new “elite Border Security Command” led by a former police, military or intelligence chief. Among the measures set to be proposed by Starmer are new border control stop and searche…

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