In this episode, we speak with Diane Taylor, a journalist at the Guardian newspaper, about Britain's "one-in-one-out" deal with France, and about the British government's new, even harsher asylum-seeker policies. 

 

Diane also tells us about the refugees she spoke to in France recently after they were deported from Britain, and about a group of asylum-seekers who went on hunger strike in protest against their forced return trip across The Channel. 

 

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Read more from Diane here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dianetaylor

 

Here's a link to the opinion piece we spoke about in this episode: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/labour-asylum-plans-cruel-hype-old-policy-unachievable-promises

 

Read 'No safe place to go': people sent back to France under 'one in, one out' deal tell of desperation, here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/people-sent-back-france-uk-one-in-one-out-scheme

 

Read Diane's article about the hunger strike, here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/26/asylum-seekers-uk-hunger-strike

 

For more on the hunger strike, see here: https://www.biduk.org/articles/bid-joins-hunger-strikers-in-detention-in-calling-for-their-right-to-claim-asylum-in-the-uk

 

For more on The Channel, the Illegal Immigration Act, the Nationality and Borders Act, the Rwanda Scheme, the Bibby Stockholm and more, see episodes 73, 62, 61, 57, 49, 44, 42, 39, 38, 32, 25, 21 and 17 of The Civil Fleet Podcast. 

 

See here to read about the fall in net migration in Britain
https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/11/27/what-is-driving-the-current-fall-in-net-migration/

 

Want to know more about the British government's latest plans to introduce ID cards? See here: https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/digital-id-liberty-position/

 

And here: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/

 

For more on Bosnia, see episodes 58, 59, and the bonus episode (which you can access on ko-fi.com/civilfleet)

 

For more on No Name Kitchen, see episodes 59, 58, 51, 41, and 6

 

For more on the Manston migrant detention centre, check out episode 32.

 

For more on Lithuania and Poland, see episodes 78, 64, 52 and 33.

 

See here for more on Humans for Rights Network: humansforrights.org

 

For more on BiD (Bail for Immigration Detainees), see here: biduk.org