The Home Office wants the navy to take charge of migrant crossings, but there’s not much value they can add.
- Professor of International Security at University of Bristol and Director of the Centre for Global Insecurity, University of Bristol
The symbolic importance of fishing has politicised a rather technical dispute about licensing requirements.
With normal routes disrupted by the pandemic, more people are driven to dangerous tactics.
Brexit could make it make the UK’s maritime security more complicated.
The number of piracy attacks has certainly declined. But the risk of being attacked at sea remains.
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