Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended - 东升国际入口

Guardian understands Home Office continues to detain dozens of people, with one group forcibly removed this week

The Home Office is still putting asylum seekers on to planes to France weeks after the controversial scheme to remove them ended, the Guardian has learned.

The “one in, one out” scheme was announced by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the former prime minister Keir Starmer in July 2025. It aimed to deter small boats crossing the Channel to the UK from northern France, with some asylum seekers arriving here forcibly returned to France while a similar number in northern France were brought legally to the UK.

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