Awkward moment Streeting shown Labour has only returned 42 migrants since August

  • Posted on October 26, 2025
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Awkward moment Streeting shown Labour has only returned 42 migrants since August

This is the awkward moment Wes Streeting is shown Labour has only returned 42 migrants in its ‘one-in-one out’ migrant scheme with France, since August. Appearing on the Trevor Phillips Sky breakfast show on Sunday (26 October), the presenter told the health secretary: “Since it started on 5 August, 11, 518 people have come across to the UK in small boats. You have returned 42, and we have given the French proportionately in that period £34 million pounds.” He added: “We are giving the French £800,000 for each person that has returned.” In response, Mr Streeting said: “Be fair, Trevor. It’s early days on the scheme and that’s not the grand sum of all of the deportations and we’re not just returning people to France.”
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