Britain and France have agreed to a pilot plan that will send some migrants who cross the English Channel on small boats back to France as the U.K. government struggles to tamp down criticism that it has lost control of the country’s borders.

The UK and France agreed a deal to send migrants arriving on small boats to the UK, in return for legal asylum seekers.

The UK and France have agreed to a ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal that will see failed asylum seekers returned to France for the first time since Brexit.