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

Vietnamese arrivals in UK by irregular means will be fast-tracked for deportation, says No 10

To Lam and Keir Starmer shake hands in a Downing Street reception room in front of their national flags
General secretary of the Communist party of Vietnam, To Lam, with Keir Starmer at Downing Street. Photograph: Leon Neal/Reuters

Vietnamese people who arrive in the UK by irregular means will be fast-tracked for deportation under a new agreement, Downing Street has said.

After a surge in clandestine arrivals from the south-east Asian country last year via small boats and in the back of lorries, the deal is supposed to cut red tape and make it faster and easier to return those with no right to be in the UK.

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