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Rules mean people can be turned away if they came through a safe third country where they could have applied for asylum. However, in the 21 months since the rules were introduced, only 83 have been deemed “inadmissible”.

Of those, the Home Office says just 21 have been returned and none to France, from where most of the 70,000 Channel migrants have crossed in that time.

The inadmissibility rules were meant to replace EU laws governing who is responsible for applications.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is said to be considering how asylum claims from “safe” countries such as Albania could be fast-tracked. Ministers also want to do deals with countries to accept “rapid returns”.

Peter Walsh, of Oxford University’s Migration Observatory, called the rules “symbolic”. He said: “The Government knows that to be able to return people they need the co-operation of countries to return them to.”

Meanwhile, another council has lost a High Court bid to stop a hotel housing asylum seekers.

Fenland Council objected to use of the Rose and Crown in Wisbech, Cambs, saying the area had “significant deprivation”, “organised crime” and a “history of migrant exploitation”.

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