Keir Starmer has revealed he wants access to Europe’s “real-time information” as part of a new security deal with Brussels.

The Prime Minister, opening the Interpol General Assembly in Glasgow, said migrant smugglers must be treated like terrorists and seen as a threat to global security.

He said “The world needs to wake up to the severity” of the migration crisis.

But he gave the clearest indication yet of one of the things he hopes to achieve by building closer ties with Europe – as he ruled out ever leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

Sir Keir claimed this would be crucial to ending the migrant crisis in the Channel.

Sir Keir added: “The only way to defeat this vile trade and save lives is to stop people being smuggled here in the first place.

“And that means doing everything we can to deepen our cross-border cooperation. So international agreements matter.

“We must use all the tools at our disposal – operational, diplomatic, political – to unite our response.

“President Macron and I have already agreed to increase information sharing and do more to dismantle smuggling routes further upstream.

“This is also a priority for the bilateral cooperation treaty we are working on with Germany.

“We are working with Italy to dismantle maritime equipment supply chains, combat illicit financial flows and strengthen our investigative capabilities and data sharing.

“And as part of Britain’s wider reset with european unionwe are seeking a new security pact, including restoring access to real-time information-sharing networks.”

The prime minister has declared “war” on smuggling gangs, telling world leaders “we must combine resources, share intelligence and tactics and tackle the problem upstream, working together to shut down smuggling routes”.

He told Interpol’s General Assembly: “I know a lot of people in this room are already working hard on this. So I accept that my argument here is primarily a political one.

“But I’m afraid we’re still at the stage where the world needs to wake up to the severity of this challenge.

“People smuggling should be seen as a global security threat similar to terrorism.

“We can seize their phones at the border, identifying and tracking the smugglers who make the payments.

“We have already trained sniffer dogs to detect the smell of boat rubber and have placed them at the crossing between Bulgaria and Turkey to stop over 100 small boats upstream, long before they reach the Canal.

“And as we understand how these gangs operate, we can invest in new capabilities and improved powers to take them down.”

Labor hopes to “crush the gangs” and create a deterrent, making it harder than ever to find passage across the Channel.

Calm weather saw 5,417 people cross on 99 boats in October – the highest monthly total this year.

This is 1,225 more than the 4,192 migrants who arrived in the UK in September – the second highest month for crossings.

In total, 31,094 people from 595 boats have made the crossing successfully this year, more than half as long as the Labor Government has been in power.

In his speech in Scotland, the Prime Minister pledged a further £75m for the border command, doubling total funding to £150m over the next two years.

The money will be used to fund high-tech surveillance equipment and 100 specialist investigators to target criminals involved in human trafficking.

British investigators will also help French prosecutors jail people smugglers after the prime minister announced he would double the amount of money to tackle the migrant crisis in the Channel.

Sir Keir added: “As we understand how these gangs operate, we can invest in new capabilities and improved powers to take them down.

“So we are giving our new Border Security Command an extra £75m of new funding on top of the £75m we have already committed.

“This will support a new Organized Immigration Crime Intelligence Unit, hundreds of new investigators and intelligence officers, supported by state-of-the-art technology.

“We are also investing a further £58 million in the National Crime Agency, including strengthening its data and intelligence capabilities.”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper insisted that closer ties with European allies would help strengthen attempts to reduce Channel crossings.

Former police chief Martin Hewitt has been appointed as the new leader of the Border Security Command tasked with reducing small boat migration.

Intelligence officers are said to be working undercover at every level of the smuggling gangs.

This is to identify the main ringleaders, their facilitators and how they hide their money.

The Daily Express understands that the UK wants to send more specialists to Iraq to hunt down smugglers in their country of origin.

The Home Office said Britain’s intelligence agencies “deploy a formidable covert capability to support the NCA to penetrate and dismantle gangs at every level of operations – from facilitators to financiers”.

Ms Cooper, Mr Prime Minister Keir StarmerThe National Crime Agency and intelligence chiefs have discussed a review of the capabilities and operations of smuggling gangs.

More British investigators and spies will be based in Europe to hunt down organized crime networks.

Sources told the Daily Express that Ms Cooper’s team hoped MI5 spies would treat people smugglers as foreign spies and terrorists.

This could see them jam smugglers’ phones and track their movements, this newspaper understands.

Migration Watch president Alp Mehmet said: “This is peanuts.

“While the extra resources to tackle illegal Channel crossings are welcome, there is still no sign that the government wants to do business with small boats.

“Just making it clear that illegal arrivals will not be allowed to stay will send the right message to smugglers and migrants.

“By borrowing the plan for Rwanda and expanding accommodation capacity, the government has made it clear that it expects the flow of boats to continue.

“Traffickers laugh and busting the gangs is just a pipe dream.”