Shabana Mahmood dismisses calls to copy Spain's migrant pushback as it's 'trickier' to tackle Channel crossings

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Shabana Mahmood has dismissed suggestions that Britain should copy Spain's approach to rapidly returning migrants who crossed into Ceuta, maintaining that the English Channel creates a fundamentally more complex challenge.The Home Secretary argued that the small boats problem facing the UK cannot be compared to the situation at Spain's North African exclave."I think what we've seen in Ceuta is unique to those particular circumstances," she told the Telegraph.She pointed to the shared land frontier between Morocco and Spain as the key distinction.The Labour Minister said: "That is different to a people smuggling trade that crosses the whole of the Channel - so you're in both French waters and then English waters, and that makes the work that we do different and trickier in many ways."During a frantic 48-hour period on Thursday and Friday, more than 60,000 people surged from Morocco into the tiny Spanish territory, with entire families swimming, scaling fences and rushing the border...

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