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SHOCK graph exposes shameful lie as France handed migrants one-way ticket to Britain in backdoor betrayal

A shocking new graph has exposed just how few migrants France has been taking back, effectively handing migrants a one-way ticket to Britain via the back door.

As Sir Keir Starmer considers a “one in, one out” deal with French President Emmanuel Macron, data compiled by Facts4EU reveals how such a deal may be not be the silver bullet the Prime Minister is seeking.


The two leaders are set to meet this coming week to discuss the ongoing migrant crisis and potentially set out a deal to firm up Britain’s borders.

Facts4EU has analysed all information available about the EU’s former ‘migrant returns’ deal, called the Dublin agreement.

France did not honour the deal of the Dublin Agreement while the UK was in the EU, which notes that countries can request others to take back asylum seekers.

The UK left the Dublin Agreement upon leaving the EU in 2020, which has led to Brexit critics suggesting that if the UK was still in the EU, we would benefit from it. However, evidence from Facts4EU denies this.

According to the think tank, which compared official records of both the EU statistics agency and the UK Home Office, there are three things that can be learned from the data: “That the French don’t seem to like taking back their illegal migrants, that they don’t seem to be very good at obeying EU regulations, and they took back a smaller and smaller percentage as the years went by”.

The data shows that in 2008, France accepted 52.8 per cent of return requests from the UK.

The graph shows that the percentage of migrant return requests accepted by France is gradually decreasing

The graph shows that the percentage of migrant return requests accepted by France is gradually decreasing

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However, journeying forward to the year before the UK left the EU, return requests sat at just 10.7 per cent, a drop of over 40 per cent.

Former Conservative MP and long-time Brexit campaigner Sir Bill Cash said: “Here is yet another example of Labour’s stream of cosmetic proposals to deal with issues.

“The real solution to these challenges, of course, lies in legislation.

“There is a need for clear and unambiguous legislation to override the European Convention on Human Rights, the Refugee Convention, the Human Rights Act, and other conventions, and by doing so in explicit terms, the Supreme Court will accept.”

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However, the think tank has highlighted that the Dublin Agreement was not a returns deal in the ways you’d expect.

Instead, it was an agreement for migrants to be returned to the EU member country where they had first requested asylum.

Therefore, Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal with Macron will differ from the Dublin Agreement because the UK will be asked to take migrants from France who have some connection with the UK – family or similar.

The UK has already given France £500million to lower the number of small boat crossings.

However, since Labour entered power, GB News has revealed that over 44,000 migrants have crossed the Channel, including 21,000 so far this year.

Claire Bullivant, vice-president of campaign group, Stand for Our Sovereignty, told GB News: “None of the costs have been quantified in any detail, but all have been mentioned by the EU as involving UK payments.

“They each represent surrenders of sovereignty which are bad enough in themselves, but when the UK has to pay to give away its sovereignty, this is when we really do say: Enough is enough.”

Sir Keir Starmer and Macron

Starmer will meet with Macron next week

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The number of migrant Channel crossings in the year since Sir Keir Starmer entered No10 is 40 per cent higher than those made during Rishi Sunak’s last 365 days in Downing Street.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has warned that the migrant crisis is now “out of control”.

He told GB News: “The Labour Government’s claim to smash the gangs is in tatters. The boats are flooding over in record numbers, and 2025 so far has been the worst in history.”

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the Government are looking to “change the rules” that restrict French police from interfering with boats more than 10 feet from the coast, but that rule is in the process of being scrapped.

Cooper told GB News: “We’re looking at a wide range of operational changes, working closely with France.

“The French interior minister is determined to change those rules. But we need those changes in place, obviously, as soon as possible.”

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