France wants to scrap the one in, one out deal and replace it with a scheme under which Britain would take asylum seekers from anywhere in the entire EU. Yes, the entire EU…
Laurent Nuñez, the French interior minister, reportedly told Shabana Mahmood as much, having said at a French parliamentary inquiry in June that the pilot signed in August 2025 was never meant to run past 1st October this year, and that France “should not have to carry it alone“.
Burnham pleaded with Macron to keep the current deal going at Downing Street last week. Even if Macron is more sympathetic than his interior minister, there’s a presidential election looming next year anyway…
Robert Jenrick told a rally on Monday:
“They say Chancellors are either undertakers or bookies. This one is an ostrich – and when the Chancellor buries his head in the sand, the rest of us, we’re left staring at his you know what.”