Britain said it will begin implementing a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France within days, a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration, after a treaty on the arrangement is ratified on Tuesday.

Britain said it will start work within days to implement a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France, a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration, after a treaty on the arrangement was ratified on Tuesday.

First migrants detained under UK-France returns deal, Starmer confirms - ‘When I say I will stop at nothing to secure our borders, I mean it’, the prime minister said on Thursday

Migrants who arrived on UK shores at Dover yesterday have become the first people detained under the new ‘one in, one out’ deal with France. The agreement with the French government came into force on Wednesday, weeks after it was first announced by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron.

The 'one-in-one-out' agreement will see small boat arrivals returned to France in exchange for people with a legitimate claim to settle in the UK - but human rights groups have hit out

Migrants who arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel have been detained under the new “one in, one out” deal.The first detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.

British border authorities have detained the first group of migrants under a pilot plan that will send some who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France

Migrants arriving off Britain's south coast were being taken into detention ahead of their removal back to France under a new reciprocal cross-Channel treaty.

The UK has detained the first small-boat migrants under a “one in, one out” returns treaty with France, as pressure grows on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to stem the influx of asylum-seekers across the English Channel.