Albania’s prime minister has ruled out allowing Britain to send failed asylum seekers to be detained in his country, in a setback to Sir Keir Starmer’s attempt to find new ways of combating illegal migration.
Starmer announced on Thursday that the government was in formal talks with a number of countries over hosting “return hubs” where failed asylum seekers could be sent once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal.
Albania is hosting two migration detention centres on behalf of Italy and ministers had hoped the country would be prepared to extend the initiative to the UK.
But at a joint press conference in Tirana with Starmer, Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, rejected the proposal.
“I have been very clear since day one when
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