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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

UK to pay £480m to France for new migrant detention centre and patrols

The UK will help fund a detention centre for asylum seekers in France for the first time, it has been announced.

Rishi Sunak has agreed to pay £480 million over the next three years for beefed up measures to stop Channel crossings following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Mr Sunak told a press conference that a summit between the two nations - the first in five years - was a "new beginning" in the relationship.

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