Lawyers ramp up plots to stop migrant returns

SHABANA Mahmood has ordered an "urgent" review into modern slavery laws amid fears human rights lawyers are exploiting them to prevent migrant deportations.

- By Michael Knowles

The Home Secretary yesterday blasted "intolerable" last-minute legal challenges as she scrambled to save Sir Keir Starmer's "one-in, one-out deal" with France.

A series of human rights claims meant Air France flights took off from Heathrow to Paris for a third consecu-

tive day without any small boat arrivals. And the UK could start accepting migrants from France on Saturday.

The Prime Minister's deal with Emmanuel Macron was thrown into disarray on Tuesday when the High Court blocked the deportation of an Eritrean migrant.