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Shadow minister crashes and burns as Yvette Cooper makes statement on new Channel crossing arrangements

According to the Home Office, 353 people crossed the English Channel by small boat on Friday.

After weeks of rising Channel crossing figures, the UK government has agreed on a long-awaited migration deal with France. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron announced a “one in, one out” pilot – and the UK prime minister said the “groundbreaking” scheme could start returning migrants to France within weeks. The…

France will accept the returned migrants in exchange for the UK taking in an equal number of asylum seekers who have family ties in Britain, the leaders of the two countries announced on Thursday.

One Border Force vessel arrived in Dover before 9am, having picked up a group of people after a ‘small boat’ incident in the Channel

UK is confident deal will be approved but EU says it wants to know more about ‘substance and form’ of agreement

Here is a closer look at the fresh plan and what the issue is.

Some migrants arriving in the UK will be sent back to France under the deal

Deal agreed the same day 220 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain, taking the number of people arriving in small boats to 21,000 this year already