Asylum seeker in UK as part of ‘one in, one out’ scheme says it is unfair on those deported

People travelling from France to the UK by small boat are deemed eligible for return there under the ‘one in, one out’ scheme. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

An asylum seeker brought to the UK by the Home Office has said it feels unjust that he was allowed into the country only because someone else was deported.

The individual benefited from the “one in” part of the controversial “one in, one out” scheme, where one asylum seeker who reached the UK on a small boat is forcibly returned to France in exchange for another being brought legally to Britain.