The UK will begin returning migrants arriving in small boats to France within weeks under a new pilot scheme, Sir Keir Starmer has said.Under the “one in, one out” deal, some arrivals would be detained and returned to France. In exchange, the UK would accept an equivalent number of asylum seekers, subject to security checks and provided they had not tried to enter the UK illegally.Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister said the plan would show that attempts to cross the Channel in small boats would “be in vain”.He did not confirm how many people would be returned or accepted during the pilot.Sir Keir said the pilot would help “break the model” of the people smugglers and would be ramped up if it was successful.The migrants accepted by the UK would need to have a connection to Britain, such as a family tie.In a statement released after the press conference, the government said the agreement would be signed “subject to completing prior legal scrutiny in full transparency and understanding with the Commission and EU Member states”.Macron said the scheme would have a “deterrent effect” beyond the numbers returned.He said Brexit had made it harder for the UK to tackle illegal migration, arguing that the British people were “sold a lie… which is that the problem was Europe”. During the press conference, the two leaders also announced that their countries would: co-ordinate their nuclear deterrentsstrengthen collaboration on supercomputers and AI “speed up and accelerate” co-operation on anti-ship missiles.Some details of the deal, including how the UK would decide who to accept and who to send back to France, remain unclear. There could also be legal challenges over the selection process.Other EU countries – such as Spain and Italy – may have concerns that returned migrants could then be se …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnThe UK will begin returning migrants arriving in small boats to France within weeks under a new pilot scheme, Sir Keir Starmer has said.Under the “one in, one out” deal, some arrivals would be detained and returned to France. In exchange, the UK would accept an equivalent number of asylum seekers, subject to security checks and provided they had not tried to enter the UK illegally.Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister said the plan would show that attempts to cross the Channel in small boats would “be in vain”.He did not confirm how many people would be returned or accepted during the pilot.Sir Keir said the pilot would help “break the model” of the people smugglers and would be ramped up if it was successful.The migrants accepted by the UK would need to have a connection to Britain, such as a family tie.In a statement released after the press conference, the government said the agreement would be signed “subject to completing prior legal scrutiny in full transparency and understanding with the Commission and EU Member states”.Macron said the scheme would have a “deterrent effect” beyond the numbers returned.He said Brexit had made it harder for the UK to tackle illegal migration, arguing that the British people were “sold a lie… which is that the problem was Europe”. During the press conference, the two leaders also announced that their countries would: co-ordinate their nuclear deterrentsstrengthen collaboration on supercomputers and AI “speed up and accelerate” co-operation on anti-ship missiles.Some details of the deal, including how the UK would decide who to accept and who to send back to France, remain unclear. There could also be legal challenges over the selection process.Other EU countries – such as Spain and Italy – may have concerns that returned migrants could then be se …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
