Jenrick proposed Britain pay France to take back illegal migrants

Telegraph ^ | Oct 10 | Charles Hymas

[RandFan]

Robert Jenrick proposed that Britain should pay France to take back small boat illegal migrants.

The Tory leadership contender suggested a one-for-one deal with France where Britain would take one of their successful asylum seekers in return for the French accepting back an illegal Channel migrant who had reached the UK.

The proposal was revealed in a note written by Mr Jenrick, when he was immigration minister, for Rishi Sunak to present to French president Emmanuel Macron at an Anglo-French summit in Paris in March 2023.

However, Mr Macron rejected the proposal despite the offer of an “ex gratia payment” for each illegal migrant returned to them.

Mr Jenrick argued that certainty for migrants that they would be returned to France would “quickly break the business model of the smugglers and initial numbers, even if large, would subside”, according to the note to Mr Sunak.

While accepting the Conservative government would have had to consider the domestic reaction to the plan, Mr Jenrick said the migrant situation was “intolerably expensive” with some £3 billion being spent on housing and supporting asylum seekers in 2023.

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It’s not expensive if they are dead.