The European Union has told the UK it is not willing to negotiate a returns agreement for migrants arriving via unauthorised routes, according to reports.
If correct, it would mean Britain is unlikely to be able to return refugees arriving via small boats across the Channel back to France in the near future.
Rishi Sunak has pushed for a bilateral returns agreement with Paris but French President Emmanuel Macron, a close ally of the Prime Minister, has said any deal must be at an EU level.
Mr Macron, during the UK-France Summit in March, said any returns mechanism would not be “an agreement between the UK and France, but an agreement between the UK and the EU”.
TalkTV’s Ian Collins is joined by Immigration lawyer Ivon Sampson and former head of UK border force Tony Smith to discuss what this may mean for the UK.
Tony: “Please call the EU out on this. What is it then that stops you from coming to a returns agreement with the UK?”
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