Cooper hails ‘groundbreaking’ migrant agreement with France

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper hails the new “one in, one out” agreement with France on illegal migrant Channel crossings, following “six-seven years of small-boats chaos”. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This is a groundbreaking agreement that means for the first time people arriving on these dangerous

00:07and unlawful small boats can be returned to France in exchange for people who have applied

00:14lawfully who are most likely to be genuine refugees coming to the UK. This hasn't been

00:20possible throughout the six, seven years of this small boats chaos that we have endured. It hasn't

00:28been possible to return people back to France to the country that the boat set off from.

00:32So this is a really important change. We are piloting it. We will develop it over time

00:37and expand it. But this is a really important change.

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