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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Starmer accused of reducing migrants to ‘commodities to be exchanged’ with ‘one-in-one-out’ deal

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of reducing migrants to “commodities to be exchanged” with his new “one in, one out” returns deal with France.

Under the deal, for each small boat migrant sent back across the English Channel, an asylum seeker will be allowed to enter the UK from France under a legal route, the prime minister announced alongside Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.

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