Home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced a plan to crack down on migration.

Yvette Cooper took aim at her right-wing rivals today by mocking their proposals for reducing the number of migrant Channel crossings.

The home secretary is launching her one in, one out, scheme with France in the hope it will finally reduce the number of so-called illegal migrants rocking up on British shores.

It will mean anyone entering the UK on a small boat can be detained immediately and returned to France.

The UK has to accept just as many migrants from France in exchange, albeit through a new asylum route.

Anyone who has tried to get to Britain illegally will not be let in.

The minister called it a “groundbreaking” deal, and said the first detentions will start in a matter of days, while removals are expected in the coming weeks.

But last month, the Tories said the deal, which will only return one in every 17 illegal immigrants, was a

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