The blunt rejection came just hours after Sir Keir said the Government had begun talks with unnamed countries about housing migrants awaiting deportation.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer confirmed the government is in talks with multiple countries to set up “return hubs” for migrants who have exhausted all legal options to stay in Britain. Speaking from Albania,

Britain’s prime minister says his government is talking with several countries to host rejected asylum seekers as they wait to be deported