Britain and France have agreed to push forward their controversial Channel crossing scheme by several more months, with the arrangement now set to run until October 1 rather than ending as planned on June 11.
The deal, which The Guardian first reported, was originally struck last July when Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron described it as a landmark agreement. Under the arrangement, one asylum seeker who reaches Britain by small boat is sent back to France in exchange for one person already in France being brought to the UK through legal routes.
