Labour migrant deal ‘descending into farce’ as activists target detention centre | Politics | News
Labour is battling to stop Channel migrant crossings (Image: Getty) Labour’s migrant deal with France is “descending into farce” after left-wing activists vowed to try and block a new deportation centre. Shabana Mahmood pledged to help Paris pay for the facility near Dunkirk so that deportations can be ramped up. But a French environmental group has claimed it does not comply with local planning rules. Flemish-Artois Coastal Environmental Defense Assembly has alleged the facility is located in an industrial zone where residential accommodation is not allowed under planning rules. And the group’s president, Nicolas Fournier, told the BBC the group was “still trying to hinder this process of building the detention centre with the appeal”. He said: “Putting so many resources solely into repression, with ever more police, doesn’t work. “So we really need to find other solutions, because we can’t continue to allow this risk of seeing people take to the sea in unacceptable, deplorable conditions that endanger them.” Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told GB News: “The Government’s so-called deal is descending into …
