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Sir Keir Starmer is expected to promise to make Kent’s shores “hostile territory for people-smuggling gangs” in a speech at Dover this morning. The Labour party leader is expected to announce plans to crackdown on small boat crossings by rolling out a new Border Security Command unit. He will say the specialist division will be paid for with cash earmarked for the current government’s £75 million Rwanda scheme if his party wins power. Starmer is expected to say a Labour government will turn the page on the Tories’ “talk tough, do nothing culture” which, he will claim, has led to record numbers…

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