The man, an Indian national, was removed from the UK on Thursday morning on an Air France plane. The government is launching an appeal against a High Court decision to temporarily block the deportation of an Eritrean man on modern slavery grounds. The arrival in France, confirmed by the Home Office, comes a little over a month since the countries agreed a year-long pilot "one in one out" scheme of exchanges of migrants in the hope it will help to deter small boat crossings. "This is an important first step to securing our borders," Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said.

"It sends a message to people crossing in small boats: if you enter the UK illegally, we will seek to remove you", she added. Later on Thursday, US President Donald Trump was asked at a joint news conference in Chequers about what advice he would offer to Sir Keir Starmer on border control. "I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn't matter if you call out the military, it doesn't matter what means you use," Trump said. In response, Starmer said: "This is an issue we are taking incredibly seriously, we have struck a number of cooperation deals with other countries because this is a problem right across Europe. "We struck the returns arrangement with France and notwithstanding the challenges to that scheme that you've seen in the last few days, a flight went off at 06:15 this morning successfully returning someone in that scheme." (BBC)