People held under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal say they had not heard of it

<p>Some of first group of small boat arrivals to be detained say they are terrified of being sent back to their home countries</p><p>Asylum seekers locked in detention centres as part of Labour’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/07/first-people-detained-one-in-one-out-asylum-deal-uk-france-immigration">“one in, one out” deal</a> have said they had not heard of the scheme before arriving in the UK on small boats and were terrified of being returned to their home countries.</p><p>The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has said the plan to send one small boat arrival back to France in exchange for accepting another to live in the UK would deter the thousands from crossing the Channel.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/14/people-held-uk-one-in-one-out-asylum-deal-not-heard-of-it">Continue reading...</a>