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Asylum seekers locked in detention centres as part of Labour’s “one in, one out” deal have said they had not heard of the scheme before arriving in the UK on small boats and were terrified of being returned to their home countries.

The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has said the plan to send one small boat arrival back to France in exchange for accepting another to live in the UK would deter the thousands from crossing the Channel.

We did not understand what was happening to us when the Home Office moved us from Manston [the former military base in Kent] where we were processed, straight to this place which is like a jail.

When we asked why they were bringing some who arrived on the same boat as me here but letting others go free, they did not answer us. They just said it was because we crossed the Channel illegally.

I am very frightened here. There are people who have committed crimes in the UK locked up with us. We have done nothing wrong apart from trying to find a safe place.

Green party (Matt Youde) – 24%

Welsh Labour (Khuram Chowdhry) – 22.7%

Plaid Cymru (Neil Roberts) – 18.7%

Reform UK (Joseph Martin) – 14.5%

Propel (Vincent Yewlett) – 9.6%

Independent (Ahmed Samater) – 4.6%

Welsh Conservative party (James Hamblin) – 4.1%

Welsh Liberal Democrats (Irfan Latif) – 1.8%