Starmer to Agree One in One Out Asylum Exchange With France for Labour Anniversary – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Starmer to Agree One in One Out Asylum Exchange With France for Labour Anniversary

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Guido can exclusively reveal that in the background Labour has been busy negotiating a one in, one out asylum seeker deal with the French for revelation within days. It’s a big policy – intended to be unveiled for Starmer’s one-year anniversary as a rabbit…

The policy is intended to break the small boats model – a percentage of asylum seekers will be returned to France on landing while the same number of applicants at the asylum processing centre in Paris will be accepted. It all depends on the percentage…

A deal was expected to be agreed last Friday. It was deadlocked at the eleventh hour over the percentage one in one out figure to be exchanged. Guido hears Labour was aiming for at least 40%…

The intention is for the government to bring in more palatable entrants from the legal route in Paris and remove small boat crossers. The higher the percentage the higher the disincentive for asylum seekers to pay over a grand to cross the Channel on a small boat. Starmer is currently being negotiated down by the French. In desperation to get the deal done by the time of the anniversary…

Guido hears they are looking at a Monday announcement – but it could be sooner. The hope inside Downing Street is that this can save Labour’s chances – especially as Starmer’s leadership and the integrity of the No10 operation is challenged by a massive welfare revolt – by reducing the viability of the small boats model. It can go one way or the other…

UPDATE: Chris Philp, shadow home secretary, said:

“We pay the French half a billion pounds to get a migrant merry-go-round. Labour should’ve never scrapped the returns deterrent. They’ve failed the country. Pathetic.”