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Emmanuel Macron blames Brexit for migrant crisis as Starmer agrees deal
Brexit made it harder to tackle illegal migration across the Channel, Emmanuel Macron said as he and Sir Keir Starmer unveiled a "one in, one out" migrant returns scheme on Thursday (10 July).
The French president told a joint press conference with the British prime minister: "It’s in fact since Brexit [that] the UK has no migratory agreement with the EU.
"It creates an incentive to make the crossing, the precise opposite of what Brexit had promised."
The pair have agreed on a plan to send back small boats migrants, with an asylum seeker being sent to the UK in exchange.
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