R4Report: Britain's Border Controls 08 Dec 11




The Report show

Summary: The UK Border Agency, the organisation which oversees Britain's immigration and customs operation, seems to be the subject of frequent damaging revelations. The recent disclosure that security checks were lowered at UK ports, allegedly without ministerial consent, cost Brodie Clark, former head of the Border Agency, his job. But behind the headlines, what is really going on in immigration halls up and down the land? In this week's The Report, Simon Cox investigates the UK Border Agency and asks are British ports now safe and secure?