Countries which refuse to 'play ball' and take back their migrants could face curtailed access to visas, new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced.
It means citizens seeking to travel legally could be penalised if their governments fail to co-operate with deportations from Britain and other major economies.
Members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance – the UK, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - were meeting in London today to discuss the plan.
Ms Mahmood said: 'For countries that do not play ball, we've been talking about how we can take much more co-ordinated action between the Five Eyes countries.
'For us, that means including possibly the cutting of visas in the future, just to say we do expect countries to play ball, play by the rules, and if one of your citizens has no right to be in our country, you do need to take them back.'
