The first tranche of migrants to be deported to France under a new “one in, one out” deal will be detained within days.

A scheme will see people being rounded up for removal in the coming week under a France-UK deal to bring down soaring numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel.

The initial pilot – now signed off by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper , her French counterpart Bruno Retailleau, and the EU Commission – will be reviewed and expanded over the coming year.

Anyone who enters the UK on a small boat faces being held at Manston processing centre and removed to France if their asylum claim is deemed invalid.

But the pilot will begin with relatively small numbers of returns, raising questions over how effective the policy will be in stopping small boat crossings.

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