Dealing with international crime

The Home Secretary has announced the introduction of tougher immigration rules which will restrict the ability of people who have been convicted and imprisoned for serious crime from entering the UK from the EU from the start of next year.

  • Every country has a crime problem - but international crime is a problem for all countries.
  • Criminals do not respect international borders - which means that we need government and law enforcement agencies to co-operate. This would be much less problematic if certain foreign governments - Russia is probably the worst culprit but China and a number of others are nearly as bad - did not regularly abuse procedures of organisations like Interpol, procedures designed to catch gangsters and fraudsters against their political opponents and domestic and international critics. We need to ensure that the UK operates safeguards against such abuses.
  • We also need to ensure our immigration rules limit the activities of international criminal gangs such as drug cartels and people-traffickers engaged in modern slavery, be it in the field of forced prostitution or compelling people into work in illegal underpaid or unsafe jobs.
  • For too long, Britain's immigration rules have not been, in the words of a former Labour home secretary "fit for purpose" to protect us against international criminal gangs, and EU freedom of movement rules have sometimes been part of the problem.
  • That’s why, as part of Britain's new immigration system, the government will introduce new rules designed to restrict the ability of criminals from the EU to enter our country after the end of the transition period. From 1st January 2021, any foreign criminal who has spent more a year in prison will be banned from entering the UK from anywhere in the world, including the EU.
     
  • The UK will be safer thanks to firmer and fairer border controls where foreign criminals regardless of nationality will be subject to the same criminality rules.

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