4 h. ago The Guardian view on Starmer and Macron’s channel crossings deal: safe routes hold the key to future progress | Editorial

The government has hailed its ‘one in, one out’ migrant returns deal as a breakthrough. But awkward questions over its implementation remainTo use a football analogy that he might appreciate, the first year of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership has been a game of two halves. Domestically, grievous strategic mistakes have been made. On the foreign stage, however, an approach that Sir Keir likes to style as “quiet, serious diplomacy” has yielded some tangible results.For the most part, this week’s state visit by Emmanuel Macron further showcased the benefits of leaving behind the blowhard politics of the post-Brexit years. Sir Keir and the French president used the occasion to pledge greater cooperation on security and strengthened their joint commitment to safeguarding Ukraine’s future as a sovereign independent state. But the biggest take-away from Mr Macron’s trip launched the prime minister straight back into toxic domestic terrain.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this a...

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5 h. ago Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s migration deal with France – cartoon

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7 h. ago More than 500 small boat arrivals in UK on day of Starmer and Macron’s migration deal

Some 573 migrants arrived in the UK on Thursday after crossing the English Channel, according to provisional figures from the Home Office.

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7 h. ago Starmer accused of reducing migrants to ‘commodities to be exchanged’ with ‘one

The criticism comes as the Mayor of Calais warned the agreement would only draw more migrants to the north coast of France

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7 h. ago Do you support the new migrant system? Take our poll and have your say

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have unveiled a bold new plan to send small boat migrants back to France in exchange for asylum seekers. The move is already dividing opinion — is this the kind of tough action you support or a step too far?

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10 h. ago Macron is right – Brexit is to blame for Britain’s immigration crisis

The French president did not hold back on how Brexit had created the small boats crisis - the reverse of the promises made by Farage and other Brexiteers, notes David Maddox

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11 h. ago UK politics live: Cooper refuses to criticise Macron’s Brexit swipe after more migrants arrive in Dover

Several migrants, wearing life jackets, were brought ashore by Border Force to Dover, Kent, on Friday

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11 h. ago More migrant small boats head to UK hours after Starmer and Macron agree one

One Border Force vessel arrived in Dover before 9am, having picked up a group of people after a ‘small boat’ incident in the Channel

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12 h. ago France migrant return scheme numbers ‘not fixed’, says Home Secretary

Yvette Cooper insisted the plan would ‘fundamentally undermine’ the people smugglers organising the crossings.

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13 h. ago 'Blitz' promised to crack down on illegal migrants in new deal with France

A ‘one in, one out’ scheme agreed by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer is set to begin within weeks

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13 h. ago Macron is right it's too easy to work illegally in UK, says Yvette Cooper after new 'small boats' deal agreed

‘Groundbreaking’ pilot scheme will see migrants ‘detained and returned to France in short order’ and begin within weeks, says Starmer

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13 h. ago UK politics live: Cooper refuses to say how many migrants will be sent to France under new Macron deal

The ‘one in, one out’ scheme will start next week after it was agreed by Macron and Starmer on Thursday

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14 h. ago Starmer and Macron agree ‘groundbreaking’ one in, one out migration deal as hundreds cross Channel in small boats

Deal agreed the same day 220 migrants crossed the Channel to Britain, taking the number of people arriving in small boats to 21,000 this year already

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21 h. ago Macron and Starmer share Larry the cat joke during Downing Street family photo

Watch as Emmanuel Macron, Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves joke about Larry the cat during a family photo at No 10.

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21 h. ago Moygashel LIVE: 'Migrant boat' bonfire branded 'inhumane' set alight as hate incident probed

The loyalist bonfire - topped with an effigy of a migrant boat - has caused controversy in Moygashel, County Tyrone, and now Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is investigating a hate incident

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21 h. ago Moygashel LIVE: Fury over as 'migrant boat' bonfire branded 'disgusting' is set alight

The loyalist bonfire - topped with an effigy of a migrant boat - has caused controversy in Moygashel, County Tyrone, and now Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is investigating a hate incident

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21 h. ago Crackdown on illegal working promised alongside migrant return deal with France

The UK has promised extra action to tackle the ‘pull factors’ luring migrants across the English Channel.

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23 h. ago Macron blames Brexit for rise in migrant crossings as Starmer hails ‘breakthrough’ small boats deal: Latest

French president says Britons ‘sold a lie’ as plan to tackle small boat Channel crossings unveiled

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26 h. ago Starmer and Macron pin hopes on one in, one out deal to deter Channel migrants

Sir Keir Starmer said the plan was a ‘real breakthrough in the way we tackle the vile trade of people smuggling’.

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27 h. ago Is that it? Starmer and Macron agree 'one in, one out' Channel migrant swap pilot but 'just 50 will be handed over each week'

The Prime Minister insisted the 'one in, one out' swap pilot scheme would see those arriving in the UK illicitly sent back to the EU 'in short order .

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