British authorities are ‘operationally ready’ and migrant detentions are expected to begin ‘within days’, the UK Home Office said.

Last month, Sir Keir Starmer said the deal would ‘turn the tables’ on the people smugglers who bring them here

The "one-in, one-out" deal will see some of those arriving in the UK returned to France.

Some asylum seekers will be sent back across Channel for first time under treaty agreed with French president

‘Operationally ready’ one in, one out deal will see 50 a week sent back to France, says Starmer

British authorities are ‘operationally ready’ and migrant detentions are expected to begin ‘within days’, the UK Home Office said.

LONDON: Britain said it will begin implementing a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France within days, a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration,…

People detained after arriving in small boat expected to be returned within three weeks, says Home Office

Arrivals in Dover to be held at immigration removal centres after detentions on first day of pilot scheme

Home secretary says the move ‘sends a message to every migrant currently thinking of paying organised crime gangs to go to the UK’

The detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.

Migrants arriving off Britain's south coast were being taken into detention ahead of their removal back to France under a new reciprocal cross-Channel treaty.

Home Office releases video of pilot scheme in action to deter asylum seekers plotting a Channel crossing

Video shows the first migrants detained under the UK’s new “one in, one out” deal with Emmanuel Macron, who could be sent back to France within weeks. People who were detained…