‘One in, one out’ deal will go ahead, says Liz Kendall after last-minute injunction | Immigration and asylum

Keir Starmer’s agreements with France will continue, and a cabinet minister insisted despite a high court decision that temporarily prevented the deportation of an eryritate man.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said that the last -minute measure that stopped the 25 -year -old child from flying to Paris will not destroy the “one, an exit” scheme forever.

On Tuesday, a judge said that the man who could not be named for legal reasons was a victim of human trafficking and would be impoverished if he was sent to France.

Kendall told Times Radio on Wednesday that he would not comment on “Operational Details ,, but he added:“ This person will not weaken the basis of this agreement. This decision is disappointing, but it will not prevent the rest of this agreement from continuing. ”

A lawyer representing the asylum seekers questioned why the government took a “arbitrary and chaotic approach için to choose who to remove the children by accidentally.

Imogen Townley, a Wilsons company, representing a few people allocated for lifting, said: “It was a very arbitrary and ruby ​​approach to choose people who came to smaller boats without much considering whether they were suitable for return to France or giving any thought.

“You would think that the United Kingdom government could choose in a pilot program, especially when there was too many people working with France, especially a small group of people.

“But unfortunately, they adopt this irrational approach. You see that the children and children caught in this process are chosen to be taken to France when they need to be explicitly removed from this process.”

Reports claimed that two 17 -year -old children were misunderstood for the plan last month.

Last month, the Ministry of the Interior detained dozens of channel asylum seekers within the scope of arrival in the UK and promised to send them back to France in “weeks”.

Almost every day this week, they had to be removed from Heathrow to Paris on commercial Air France flights, but none of them have been taken back.

Ministers are now faced with more legal difficulties and the possibility of delay. Sources confirmed that at least five more people have been allocated to remove this week.

Some critics claimed that the ministers had faced similar problems with the previous conservative government’s plan to deport Rwanda, which could not force anyone and were repeatedly challenged in the courts. However, unlike Rwanda, these are difficulties over individual cases rather than the whole plan.

Within the scope of the agreement signed by Starmer and Emmanuel Macron in July, the UK agreed to detain channel plaintiffs and send them back to France to buy a number of asylum seekers with the UK.

Starmer said: “There is no silver bullets here, but we can finally turn the paintings with a united effort, new tactics and a new level of intention.”

On Tuesday night, Justice Sheldon, who decided to prevent the deportation of the Eritrean man, said that more time was needed to investigate the claim that human smuggling is a potential victim.

The court told him that he and his mother went to Ethiopia as a little child and in 2023 there was smuggling in Libya.

The court said that he later traveled from Italy to France and that his mother came to England with a small boat opposite the channel after paying £ 1,000 to smugglers on 12 August.

As a part of the agreement, France plans to fly asylum seekers to England this Saturday.

A French Interior Department spokesman: “The first immigrants still need to come from England to France this week and will start on Saturday, the first to leave France.”