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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

UK and France extend ‘one in, one out’ small boats pilot scheme until October

Protesters hold signs reading ‘Refugees Welcome’ and ‘We're no island of strangers’
Pro-refugee protesters in Falkirk in August 2025. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The Home Office is extending a controversial scheme to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats, the Guardian has learned.

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, signed a deal they hailed as “groundbreaking” last July, known as “one in, one out”.

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