Well, well, well. At long last, two months after it was agreed, the first illegal migrant has been deported from Britain to France under Keir Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ deal with Emmanuel Macron. The news comes after this week saw a number of delays thanks to lawyers submitting eleventh-hour legal challenges – putting a spanner in the works of Starmer’s deportation plans. But while today is a breakthrough for the PM, it’s going to take some amount of work to make a dent in Britain’s migrant crisis – given more than 30,000 have crossed the Channel illegally this year…
After the scheme faced delays earlier in the week, the new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood launched an urgent review of Britain’s modern slavery law to prevent it being used by migrants to block their deportation – which, the