Albania angrily denies it would process asylum seekers for UK

PM Edi Rama says he will never receive refugees for richer countries' after Raab said UK was exploring plans

Albania has strenuously denied it is willing to process people crossing the Channel to Britain, after the UK deputy prime minister, Dominic Raab, confirmed that the government is exploring ways of processing asylum seekers abroad.

Edi Rama, the prime minister, said he would never receive refugees for richer countries", after a report in the Times suggested Albania would be willing to host an offshore processing centre for people arriving in the UK from France in small boats.