Kosovo offers to become first country to accept Britain’s refused asylum seekers

Kosovo is an outlier in the region, whose other leaders say looking for places to dump immigrants' is evidence the UK is in a very dark place'

Kosovo has become the first country to indicate it will accept Britain's refused asylum seekers as part of government plans to set up return hubs" in third countries.

Albin Kurti, the prime minister of Kosovo, said he wants to help the UK" and confirmed discussions were taking place with officials from the UK, the Times reports. The plans would seek to send people whose asylum claims had been turned down to foreign detention centres once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal.