Jacqui Smith and Victoria Derbyshire.A Labour minister dodged six questions on one of her party’s key election pledges as she was skewered by Victoria Derbyshire.Jacqui Smith was repeatedly asked how many human trafficking gangs have been “smashed” since the general election.Keir Starmer made the policy a central plank of his election campaign amid pressure from voters to stop asylum seekers coming to the UK on small boats across the English Channel.On Newsnight on Monday, Derbyshire asked Smith: “Labour didn’t promise to stop the boats, but it did promise to smash the gangs who facilitate those dangerous Channel crossings. How many gangs have you smashed so far?”The Home Office minister replied: “Well, just going through Parliament today, is new legislation to enable counter-terrorism type powers to enable law enforcement to get in earlier.”But the presenter asked again: “So how many gangs have you smashed so far?”Smith said it there was “ongoing law enforcement activity” around the is