Slow boat to success

Hard graft is the only way to smash criminal gangs

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Drugs, guns, booze and now people. Smuggling's oldest trades just got a 21st century upgrade - and business is booming.

The gangs running this racket are making billions, charging desperate people a fortune for a one-way ticket to misery.

There's no happy ending here. Just risk, fear and exploitation.

Flimsy dinghies. Eighty to a boat. Packed like floating coffins. One slip and we could see the deadliest Channel tragedy since Zeebrugge.

The Tories had their shot. Nearly a quarter of a billion pounds poured into Rwanda and not one boat stopped - but 84,0000 people crossed after the deal was signed.

Now Labour is taking a different route. No stunts. No spin. Just the hard graft of shutting the smugglers down at the source.