It’s not been Sir Keir Starmer’s week. After a 100,000-strong march at the weekend saw Brits protest issues like Britain’s borders, the news that the Home Office has failed to deport migrants to France for the second day in a row is unlikely to defuse tensions. Thanks to human rights claims, the one-in one-out migrants deal to France has been delayed after lawyers submitted eleventh-hour legal challenges – putting a spanner in the works of Starmer’s deportation plans.
A flight leaving Heathrow Airport today was due to have a number of migrants on board – but the Home Office admitted that there would be no deportations for the second day in a row. The government had booked a small total of seats on Air France flights from Heathrow to Paris every day this week for migrants, and despite not