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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

‘One in, one out’ deal will go ahead, says Liz Kendall after last-minute injunction

People being brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, after a small boat incident in the Channel in early September.
People being brought in to the Border Force compound in Dover, Kent, after a small boat incident in the Channel in early September. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Keir Starmer’s returns deal with France will go ahead, a cabinet minister has insisted, despite a high court ruling that temporarily blocked the deportation of an Eritrean man.

Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, said the last-minute injunction stopping the 25-year-old from being flown to Paris would not scupper the “one in, one out” scheme for ever.

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