No10 says asylum returns deal with France 'is not possible' because the EU ... trends now
Downing Street today insisted a migrant returns deal with France was 'not possible' because Britain would have to accept a quota of refugees from the EU in exchange.
Any such agreement is 'not on the table' because the Government 'would not agree to any kind of deal that would require quotas in return', a No10 spokeswoman said.
It came after Foreign Secretary David Cameron praised the pre-Brexit arrangements for sending Channel migrants back to France.
'I'd love that situation to be the case again, that's the most sensible thing,' the former PM said, as he stressed it was 'not available at the moment'.
Rishi Sunak this week saw his Rwanda Bill finally approved by Parliament as he pushes ahead with plans to deport Channel migrants to the east African country.
Just hours after the PM had his new laws approved by both the Commons and Lords, 402 migrants arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel in seven boats on Tuesday.
Five people, including a child, died while trying to make the perilous journey to Britain the same day.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron praised the pre-Brexit arrangements for sending Channel migrants back to France
A group of people travel in an inflatable boat across the Channel, bound for Dover on the south coast of England
Asked whether he might also have pursued the Rwanda policy - which Mr Sunak claims will help deter migrant crossings - when he was in No10 between 2010 and 2016, Lord Cameron told ITV News: 'We had a totally different situation because we had a situation where you could return people directly to France.
'Now, I'd love that situation to be the case again, that's the most sensible thing.
'People land on a beach in Kent, you take them straight back to France, you therefore break the
