The Prime Minister and the French President Emmanuel Macron are set to announce a ‘one in, one out’ small boats deal at a joint press conference.
Under the terms of the deal, Britain would accept migrants with links to the country in exchange for sending others back across the channel.
If such a deal were struck, it would only result in the return of a fraction of the 21,000 people who have made the channel crossing so far in 2025, a record for this point in a year.
But it would also represent a concession by the French that such returns are possible, after years of MPs on the right of British politics insisting France is a “safe” country where migrants can be sent back to.
When Macron and Starmer met in Downing Street on Wednesday, the small boats crisis appeared to be the mainstay of their conversations.
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