Migrant charity says new UK and France deal will be ‘drop in the ocean’

UK-Iraq deportation deal nears final stages as migration spikes

Yvette Cooper, the UK Home Secretary, is reportedly in the "final stages" of agreeing a new migration pact with Iraq to accelerate cooperation between London and Baghdad, allowing the UK to deport a higher number of failed asylum seekers, The Daily Mail reported on Monday. However, the agreement has yet to be officially confirmed by either side. "More than 21,000 people have already made the perilous journey across the Channel, and Iraqi Kurds n…

Migrant charity says new UK and France deal will be ‘drop in the ocean’

Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new migrant return agreement due to begin within weeks. The UK Government’s new one in, one out migration agreement with France “lacks transparency” and is “sidestepping the issue”, charity leaders have said. Last week, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced their new migrant return agreement which is due to begin w…

Starmer, Macron, and migration: Labour’s latest divisive distraction - The Communist

Facebook Twitter Reddit WhatsApp Messenger Email Print PM Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron recently met in Downing Street. If the press release is anything to go by, they mostly pontificated on their countries’ imagined status as world powers. Given all their platitudes about Britain and France’s important global role, it is surprising to see that they do not even seem to have the English Channel under control! This is nothing b…