More men deported under Labour’s ‘One in, one out’ deal are planning to return to the UK. Oh boy…
Channel 4 went to France to speak to the men, two of whom were some of the first to be deported by the scheme. They are “already considering trying to reach Britain again”…
“Others we spoke to in Paris and northern France said they, too, plan to cross again, seeing it as a gamble worth taking in the hope they won’t be returned a second time.”
The broadcaster reports that another deported migrant “has since absconded from his accommodation in France. And an Iranian man who was also deported has already made it back to the UK via a small boat crossing.” And this is the proof of concept pilot…
One returning migrant was caught by authorities earlier in the month. Border security minister Alex Norris told Sky News this morning “he is detained and he will be removed – he hasn’t gone yet… people are always going to test your front door.” The deal has so far returned only 42 people. A concerning quantum emerging…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”