EU countries snub Priti Patel’s plans to return asylum seekers

UN criticises the proposals as so damaging they risked Britain's global credibility'

Not a single European country has decided to support the UK government's controversial asylum plans, with the UN on Saturday night criticising the proposals as so damaging they risked Britain's global credibility".

Six weeks after the home secretary, Priti Patel, unveiled a sweeping immigration overhaul that included deporting migrants who enter the UK illegally to safe countries such as France and other EU countries", sources have said the Home Office has been unable to persuade any European state to sign up to the scheme.