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BBC News
11-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Dover & Deal MP says new UK-France migrant deal 'will work'
The new migrant scheme which will see an expected 50 migrants a week returned to France is both more "humane" and "immediate", the MP for Dover and Deal has said.A "one in, one out" deal agreed by the UK and French governments on Thursday proposes that for each migrant the UK returns, Britain will accept another who has made a legal claim in scheme has been criticised by politicians including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp, who argue its impact will be and Deal MP Mike Tapp disagrees with this, and claims that "it 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 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 record numbers have informed the governments' desire to do a 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".
Spectator
28-05-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
Mike Tapp: ‘I'll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform'
'I'll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform,' Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal, tells me. 'We need to deliver.' It's a message Labour is increasingly keen to project – but Tapp sound like he really means it. Where others Labour MPs prevaricate on immigration, Tapp supports 'return hubs' (for failed asylum seekers). He finds merit in Denmark's deportation model, arguably the most hardline in Europe. It includes the confiscation of asylum seeker's cash or jewellery over a value of 10,000 Danish Kroner (around £1,100) to pay for their stay in the country. Tapp doesn't want to leave the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights), but he does acknowledge public impatience with Britain's immigration policies. 'It takes time,' he says. 'But Rwanda isn't the answer.' Only time will tell whether his plain-speaking approach will work. At the 2024 election, he beat his Reform rival by over 7,000 votes.
