Andy Burnham is set to promise that foreign criminals will not be sent back to EU countries at a 'surrender summit' in Brussels this week, according to a leaked draft agreement with the bloc. The draft states that 'the UK commits not to proceed with such removals and deportations in the future', referring to early removal and deportation of foreign national offenders under the Sentencing Act 2026. Officials insist the document is an early version of the final agreement, to be signed by Mr Burnham and EU counterpart Ursula von der Leyen, and that negotiations have continued since it was drawn up.

Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader, said the proposed deal showed the Prime Minister would agree to 'a laundry list of extra costs for struggling families' at the meeting on Friday. She pointed to payments into Europe's electricity market, which she said would likely push up energy bills, and to contributions to an EU asylum fund. Other elements of the draft include contributions to regional development funds, permission for young people from all 27 EU countries to live in Britain for up to three years without any cap, age limit, visa fee or NHS surcharge, and a course towards signing up to Brussels' tariffs on Chinese cars and steel.S1

The row comes as Stay Out, a group set up by former Vote Leave supporters to resist Mr Burnham's Brexit 'reset', argues that a return to the EU would oblige Britain to join the bloc's asylum solidarity scheme. The scheme fines member states that do not take in asylum seekers relocated from other countries, and the group says Britain's share would be 4,444 people a year, in addition to those already arriving illegally on small boats, or an extra £76 million annually. The Prime Minister has said the UK-EU summit will launch a 'conversation' on future relations that could end with Britain going 'all the way' back into the bloc.S1