UK forced to re-write ‘one in, one out’ deal with France… as small boat migrants keep re-entering after being deported

The Sun ^ | 22 Jun 2026 | Araminta Plumptre

[MinorityRepublican]

THE UK has been forced to rewrite the “one in, one out” deal with France as small boat migrants continue to re-enter Britain.

People smugglers have been using lorries to bring migrants previously deported under the deal back into the country.

The original treaty stated that migrants coming to Britain on small boats could be returned to France.

Now, Shabana Mahmood has agreed an amendment with French officials that will mean migrants who return to the UK via lorry will be sent back to France again.

The rewriting will involve a new classification for migrants dubbed the “returnee case” reports The Times.

Since the treaty came into effect on Aug 6 last year, 921 small boat migrants have been returned to France, just 3.5 per cent of the total number.

The UK has taken 896 asylum seekers from France in the same period.

The treaty allowed for illegal Channel migrants to return to France if the UK accepted the same number of asylum seekers.

In march, four illegal immigrants booted out of the UK sneaked back in on a lorry.

This followed at least two more who were smuggled in last autumn.

Ms Mahmood and the French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said the treaty will now apply no matter how the deported migrant returns to the UK.

The Home Secretary said in a letter to her French counterpart: “Following our recent meeting which allowed us to observe the quality of the co-operation established under the agreement… I wish to propose an addition to the objectives of the agreement, explicitly adding the objective of deterring clandestine returns to the UK by individuals previously transferred to France under the agreement.”

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[Wuli]

Why can’t the U.K. Navy just turn the boats back and just as easily asked is why France cannot stop the boats from leaving its shore in the first place????

[ealgeone]

Close the channel. It can be done. Just takes political will.

[gibsonguy]

Because Labour needs every one of those votes

[MinorityRepublican]

Because Labour needs every one of those votes

Trying to get them in before 2029. Then Reform/Restore won't have the votes to form a coalition.

[butlerweave]

Suspend the insane asylum seekers crap

[zeestephen]

Via international treaty, immigrants must apply for asylum in the first country they step into after leaving their home country.

Great Britain could lawfully pack every English Channel boat immigrant onto passenger jets, and then send them straight back to France and Belgium!

France and Belgium can do the same thing, if they are not the first country.