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After Sir Keir Starmer refused to rule out plans for a "one-for-one" migrant removals agreement with France, GB News asks its members if they trust the French to stop migrants making the 21-mile journey.
A staggering 99 per cent of the 2,122 respondents do not trust France to curb Channel crossings, with just one per cent putting faith in Paris.
The pilot scheme could see a person deported from the UK in exchange for the French sending another individual across the Channel.
Speculation of a potential agreement comes amid a surge in Channel crossings in recent days.
The total number of migrants who have crossed the Channel in 2025 so far is already teetering towards 9,000.
The figures is around 40 per cent higher than the 6,265 who crossed at this point last year.
Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, said that the new proposal “won’t even reduce numbers arriving” and that Labour’s pledge to smash the gangs “lies in tatters”.
He claimed: “This plan won’t work because it will only see ‘small numbers’ of illegal immigrants returned to France. By definition, the vast majority crossing the channel illegally will get to stay in the UK - so there is no deterrent.
“The only way to deter these illegal crossings is to remove everyone who arrives. That’s why we had a plan ready to do this - Rwanda - but Labour scrapped it before it started, with no replacement.
“This new proposal won’t even reduce numbers arriving - because for each illegal immigrant send back to France, another will come to the UK.”
Reform UK MP Lee Anderson added: “Instead of negotiating trade-style agreements concerning migrants, the focus should be on securing and closing our borders.
“Such a strategy would be more effective, less costly, and far simpler.”
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