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.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday (July 10) that they had agreed on a "one in, one out" returns scheme - which would see Britain deporting to France undocumented people arriving in small boats,