Home Office could send children who cross Channel in small boats back to France ...Middle East

The UK’s new returns deal, which starts officially on Wednesday, will see any adults arriving via small boat at risk of being returned to France for the first time.

Any minor who travels to the UK unaccompanied would not be eligible for deportation.

The Home Office said people from countries where they are most likely to be granted asylum as genuine refugees, or exploited by smuggling gangs, will be first in line to be granted permission to come to the UK.

In order to be deemed eligible, they must be an adult (or family group), located in France, and must not have French immigration status or have been granted international protection in another country.

If, during that three month period, their asylum claim is rejected they could still then be removed from the country.

Those who try to gain entry via a small boat can be immediately detained and assessed for deportation under the new deal.

But she was unable to specify when the first deportations would actually take place – beyond telling LBC Radio it would happen “in a matter of weeks”.

The deal, designed to discourage people from trying to enter the UK via a small boat, was agreed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron last month.

The government has not set any numerical targets but as the scheme becomes operational it will be expanded. Initially, around 50 people per week are expected to be sent to France.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: “We never claimed that there is a single silver bullet on this. So, this goes alongside the 28 per cent increase in returns of failed asylum seekers that we have brought in.

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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the agreement would not “stop the boats” – and denied that her party was partly to blame for failing to stop the flow of migrants across the Channel.

Asked whether the Conservatives were partly to blame for the immigration and asylum situation, Badenoch told reporters: “No I don’t accept that at all, because what Labour are doing is just rubber-stamping all of the applications and saying they’re processing.”

Labour scrapped “the only deterrent that this country had, which was the Rwanda plan”, she added.

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