The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was ripped apart on Tuesday morning by BBC Breakfast’s John Kay as the government one-in, one-out scheme means it is actually “26-in-one-out.”
The government’s agreement with the French President Emmanuel Macron for the so called “one-in, one-out” comes into effect today.
Migrants crossing the English Channel on small boats will allegedly be immediately detained and then will be sent back, but how long they will stay in the UK before they are sent back remains to be seen.
It is believed that in reality that just 50 migrants will be sent back to France and the Home Secretary is refusing to admit to the public just how many will be kicked out of Britain.
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Kay said to Cooper on BBC Breakfast that “Last week, 1,355 people came across the Channel in small boats, in which case that’s not ‘one-in-one-out’, it’s ’26-in-one-out’.
“Can you understand that people are going to take some convincing that this policy is going to work and it’s really going to make a difference?”
Cooper replied, “People who are arriving on small boats should frankly be returned to France. They’re coming on illegal boats, they’re paying thousands of pounds to criminal people smugglers. That money should be lost and they should be returned.
“And also the principle that where we take people from other countries, we should do so through a legal process, where people have gone through security checks.
“So those are the right principles to establish. And bear in mind, this has never happened with France before. We have never had this in place throughout the six years that this small boat chaos has been continuing.
“So I think it’s right that we establish that. We do know that the Greece-Turkey agreements were brought in 2015 and 2016. that only operated for a short period of time, but actually had quite a big impact as well. And also, look, we have never claimed that there is a single silver bullet on this.”
Kay was visibly frustrated by cooper as she continued to refuse to admit how many migrants will be sent back to France.
He said, “I don’t understand why giving out a number, even just an ambition of a number at this early stage would affect the smuggling gangs and put them off doing the job or increasing their job?”
Cooper told BBC Breakfast, “We’ve seen them do that continually over different through the years.
“And we’ve also seen them just exploit any rules they can, for example, one of the reasons we’ve had particular problems this year is because they’ve been deliberately exploiting the French rules, which mean up until now, France has not been intervening in French waters, in shallow waters, and so therefore, the boats have been loading up in shallow waters.
“Now, that is changing now as a result of the agreement that we have with France, so France will be able to take action in French waters, but it’s just a good example of any information that’s provided.
“The criminal gangs use that to operationalise, they use that as part of their advertising.
“But we will provide regular updates, so people will be able to see the numbers that are being returned, they will be able to see the numbers of people who are being detained as we go through this programme.”
