Downing Street has insisted its migrant returns scheme with France is not a "shambles" after the High Court blocked a man's deportation.

Having seen the previous Conservative government's Rwanda scheme run into trouble with the courts , the Labour administration's alternative suffered its own setback on Tuesday.

An Eritrean man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was due to be on a flight to France this morning.

He brought a legal claim against the Home Office, with lawyers acting on his behalf saying the case "concerns a trafficking claim".

They also said he had a gunshot wound to his leg, and would be left destitute if he was deported.

The Home Office said it was reasonable to expect him to have claimed asylum in France before he reached the UK in August, but the ruling we

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