UK in talks with multiple countries over asylum seeker return hubs [SOUND]

# UK prime minister Keir Starmer says they are in talks with other countries to set up return hubs for asylum seekers who have had their application rejected. The proposals would apply only to asylum seekers whose claims had been rejected and who had no further routes of appeal in the UK. The number of people crossing the Channel has passed 12-thousand since January, putting 2025 on course to be a record year. Starmer says he sees the return hubs as an important innovation: