He says small boats migrants will be returned to France, in exchange for asylum seekers who have not tried to enter the UK illegally.

The United Kingdom and France are finalizing a new deal to slow the flow of illegal migrants across the narrow sea between them. The "one in, one out" deal was discussed in London on Thursday, at the UK-France Summit, during day three of President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the UK.

London and Paris unveiled a "pilot" programme on Thursday to return to France some of the migrants arriving in the UK on small boats across the

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 and in exchange the UK would accept an equivalent number of asylum seekers,

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If agreed, the numbers sent back in the pilot would be only a small fraction of the usual number who cross the Channel every week.