Post-Brexit deal may see more migrants in the UK

[pellinore]

Rishi Sunak will on Thursday urge European leaders to put the migration crisis at the “top of the agenda” every time they meet as he continues to try and fulfil his promise to “stop the boats” crossing the Channel.

But the Prime Minister faces warnings that his efforts to boost European cooperation on asylum risk failing to deliver meaningful action unless the UK agrees to take in far more asylum seekers than even the tens of thousands of migrants that arrive on its shores now.

Mr Sunak will use the European Political Community (EPC) summit, seen by the UK as a means of engaging with the EU and neighbouring countries post-Brexit, to announce talks on an asylum-seeker returns agreement with hosts Moldova and an intelligence sharing deal with Bulgaria to disrupt people smuggling gangs at the bloc’s external border.

As Rishi Sunak talks asylum with EU in Moldova, experts say a post-Brexit deal may see more migrants in the UK (archive.ph)

Edited June 1 by pellinore