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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor

First people to be returned to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal

A group being brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, from a Border Force vessel after a small boat incident in the Channel
A group being brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, after a small boat incident in the Channel on Wednesday. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

People who arrived in the UK on a small boat have been detained under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal for the first time and are expected to be returned to France within three weeks, the Home Office has said.

Detentions began on Wednesday lunchtime as those identified in the Channel were held in immigration removal centres pending their removal.

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