Brussels wants UK to accept EU courts in exchange for Channel migrant help

Fact-check index: 45/100 — The lead paragraphs accurately reflect the sparse Daily Mail source on Burnham's EU summit plans and database access, but the article's analytical claims about Channel smuggling intelligence gaps, enforcement mechanisms, and political resistance are unsupported extrapolations beyond the single-paragraph source.

• Brussels wants UK to submit to jurisdiction of EU judges as price for help with small boats crisis — Matches headline: 'Brussels tells Burnham UK must cede powers to EU judges... if it wants help with channel migrant crisis.'
• UK must pay into the bloc's budget — Headline/source say UK must 'pay' but do not specify payment is into 'the bloc's budget' — that detail is not established by the provided source text.
• Andy Burnham intends to raise the issue at next month's UK-EU summit — Source: 'Andy Burnham will use a summit next month... to get a new deal.'
• Summit was convened to draw Britain closer to the bloc — Source: summit 'designed to draw the UK closer to the bloc.'
• Burnham will press for renewed access to EU's shared migrant and criminal databases, lost after Brexit — Source: 'access to its migrant and criminal databases that was lost after Brexit.'
• Shared databases underpinned police and border cooperation before Brexit, and losing them left British agencies tracking Channel smuggling networks with less shared intelligence than EU states retain — This causal/comparative claim about smuggling-network tracking capability is not stated anywhere in the brief source material; it is the article's own inference.
• Brussels' price turns a technical fix into a political one that Westminster has resisted since Brexit — Editorial framing not supported by the source, which only reports the headline terms without characterizing UK's history of resistance.
• Whether Burnham/government accepts EU judicial oversight remains unresolved, and how Brussels would enforce compliance is also unresolved — Speculative framing added by the article; source provides no information on enforcement mechanisms or Burnham's position on acceptance.