Dover & Deal MP says new UK-France migrant deal 'will work'
He said: "If this goes well, the more of a deterrent it will deliver... but obviously that takes time, and we've got to get this working first, and I'm really confident we will."Responding to Philp's assertion that this deal would only return one in every 17 migrants arriving, Tapp said the scheme is aimed at "chipping away and breaking that smuggling gangs model"."If you're a car dealer, and one in 17 of the vehicles you're selling are dodgy... your business model is going to start breaking down," he said.While more than 170,000 people have arrived in the UK in small boats since 2018, nearly 20,000 of those were recorded in the first six months of this year.These record numbers have informed the governments' desire to do a deal.Tapp believes this is also a more "humane" approach to the scrapped Rwanda deal where "you'd deport four [people] for £700m... to a nation with questionable human rights and a one-way ticket".He also stressed that any migrants who attempt to come back to Britain after being returned to France "won't be eligible on any asylum claims".
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