Labour labelled ‘morons’ over ‘one-in one-out’ migrant plan as it’s led to two deportations

Labour are being branded “morons” over the party’s flop “one-in, one-out” migrant deportation scheme, which has so far led to just two deportations

Labour are being branded “morons” over the party ’s flop “one-in, one-out” migrant deportation scheme.

The party is under attack after only a second man was forced out of Britain under the rule – as boat-loads full of more migrants set off across the channel and landed in England.

A single small boat migrant was flown to France on a commercial jet on Friday morning – making him only the second to be deported since the one-in, one-out agreement was signed in July to great fanfare.

At the same time, at least three dinghies were spotted making way out to sea from a Calais beach, with hundreds of migrants making their way to the UK.

Of those, dozens of migrants brought ashore at Dover by Border Force hours after the small boats embarked on the deadly crossing.

The migrant removed yesterday was an Eritrean who said he was an “alleged” trafficking victim.

His legal team is pleading for him to be granted “interim relief”.

They say shipping him back to his homeland would lead to a string of human rights breaches.

But after his legal battle failed he was stuck on an Air France flight from London Heathrow Airport, which left for Paris at 6.39am.

Two armed French cops escorted him away after he landed.

Donald Trump has urged Sir Keir Starmer to bring in the military to sort Britain’s migrant crisis.

The US President said during his state visit to the UK the Prime Minister needs to take “a very strong stand” on the issue as it is “hurting him badly”.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the return of the first migrant showed those crossing the Channel that if they enter the UK illegally, the government will “seek to remove you”.

She added she would “continue to challenge any last-minute” and “vexatious” attempts to “frustrate a removal in the courts”.

Social media users have flooded the web with memes and messages mocking Labour’s migrant policy.

One posted a picture of a man desperately using a single bucket to try and stop flooding at Venice’s canals with the caption: “This is exactly how effective Starmer’s one in, one out deal is.”

Another ranted “one in, one out normally implies the same about leaving is the same as the number coming in?” – before labelling Labour “morons”.

The deputy PM David Lammy insisted the UK’s migrant returns deal with France serves as an “immediate deterrent” as two asylum seekers were removed from the country under the scheme.

He said as Channel crossings continued the government hoped to see the number of deportations “grow over the coming months and years”.

Mr Lammy added: “It has been very important to increase the numbers of people that we are returning to the countries from which they are from, and that’s gone up 14%… I played an important role in that as foreign secretary and that work must continue. “This pilot with France is a milestone because it sends an immediate deterrent to people, many of them coming obviously across the water, that we will send them back, and it is our hope to see that grow over the coming months and years because we have to bear down on the gangs and we have to smash the model effectively and we have to ensure that those who do not have a right to be here are sent back to the countries from which they are from.” Pressed on whether the Government would take the US president’s apparent advice to call the military in to deal with immigration, he said: “We’ve got amazing border guard.” Mr Lammy added the Ministry of Defence was already working closely with the Home Office on plans to potentially move migrants onto military sites as the Government seeks to wind down the use of hotels as accommodation. His fellow Cabinet minister Peter Kyle suggested earlier that the armed forces should remain focused on defence.

The business secretary said: “The Navy actually does have a working relationship with the UK Border Force, and the Navy can be called upon if needed.” But he later added: “What we really need at the moment is our military focused on all of those really key issues around the world, directly relating to our national defence.”