Rishi Sunak says international system for policing human trafficking ‘not working’

World’s most vulnerable are ‘paying the price’ for the failure to prevent unlawful migration, Sunak says

The prime minister will warn European leaders during a gathering in Iceland that the international system for policing human trafficking is “not working”.

Rishi Sunak will tell the Council of Europe meeting in Reykjavik that both European communities and the world’s most vulnerable are “paying the price” for the failure to prevent unlawful migration.

It comes as Mr Sunak’s Conservative administration attempts to pass into law measures designed to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats.