Starmer and Macron expected to announce migration deal that will involve the UK accepting some cross-Channel asylum seekers
President Macron is due to arrive at Downing Street soon. The red carpet is out.
Good morning. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, will mark the end of the three-day state visit with a press conference this afternoon where they will explain what has been agreed. And it is now clear that Starmer has got some sort of ‘one in, one out’ returns deal for small boat migrants. In our story this morning Kiran Stacey says:
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will announce a “one in, one out” migration deal on Thursday that will involve the UK accepting some cross-Channel asylum seekers but returning others to France.
The two leaders are expected to cap the French president’s three-day state visit to the UK with a press conference in London at which they will announce the new plan to tackle small boat crossings.