Starmer will send back fraction of Channel migrants under Macron deal
Only 50 people per week may be returned to France in initial phase – despite 44,000 arriving in past year
Sir Keir Starmer will only return around 50 migrants a week to France under a “one-in, one-out” deal to be unveiled with Emmanuel Macron.
The Prime Minister and the French president will announce on Friday a trial of the scheme, which will start at the end of August. It will see the equivalent of one in 17 of the migrants who have crossed the Channel in the past year returned to France.
It will mean that around 800 will be taken back by France by the end of the year, against the 44,000 migrants who have arrived since Labour won the election last July. In return, a similar number of asylum seekers with family connections to the UK will be accepted by Britain.
However, the UK Government hopes there will be a significant increase in the numbers after a short pilot of the scheme.
Sir Keir met Mr Macron in Number 10 to finalise the deal, which is designed to break people smugglers’ business model and create a deterrent. It is expected to show illegal migrants that they can expect their asylum claim to be rejected on arrival in the UK, before being sent back to France.
In a statement released after their meeting, the two leaders hailed it as a “new and innovative” deterrent to combat people smuggling gangs.
A Downing Street spokesman said: “The leaders agreed tackling the threat of irregular migration and small boat crossings is a shared priority that requires shared solutions.
“The two leaders agreed on the need to go further and make progress on new and innovative solutions, including a new deterrent to break the business model of these gangs.”
Officials have previously said the returns agreement would be piloted with small numbers to test proof of concept. However, the independent experts who advised Downing Street have argued that there needed to be a significant proportion of migrants returned in order to create an effective deterrent.
The Tories described the proposed scheme as “no deterrent at all”.
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