Labour’s migrant returns deal with France has descended into farce as a minister appeared to contradict the terms of a new treaty.
Cabinet minister Lisa Nandy said small boat migrants sent back under the deal would see their human rights claims heard after being sent back to France.
However, it later emerged that some types of human rights cases would, in fact, block the Home Office from being able to remove migrants in the first place.
Asked whether human rights challenges amounted to a loophole in the plan, Culture Secretary Ms Nandy said: ‘That's not the case at all.
‘The deal that we've struck will allow… us to send people back to France who have human rights claims.
