An asylum seeker who was sent to France as part of the government’s ‘one in, one out’ deal has returned to the UK on a small boat, according to reports.

The Home Office revealed on Sunday that 42 migrants who entered the country illegally had been sent back under the agreement announced by Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron earlier this year.

It is intended to act as a deterrent for those crossing the English Channel on small boats, by introducing the risk they will not get to stay.

But the Guardian has reported that one of the people who was deported in that initial cohort has made the trip again, and is currently in the UK.

The man told the newspaper: ‘If I had felt that France was safe for me, I would never have returned to the UK.’

He reportedly claims he is a victim of modern s

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