Labour admits 'one-in, one-out' deal costs £56k per migrant after refusing to tell GB News true price
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TL;DR
- The 'one-in, one-out' deal with France costs an estimated £56,000 per migrant.
- The Home Office initially denied a GB News FOI request for these cost details.
- Since last summer, 1,400 migrants have been sent back under the scheme.
- The total annual cost, including detention, security, and legal expenses, is £78 million.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes the scheme acts as a deterrent, though admits numbers are small and scaling up is operationally difficult.
- The deal involves France accepting illegal migrants in exchange for sending asylum seekers who have passed security tests to the UK.
- Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp criticized the scheme, suggesting it's not working and advocating for the UK to leave the ECHR.