A man is set to be deported to France on Friday after he lost his High Court bid to get his removal temporarily blocked.

The migrant, who cannot be named, arrived in the UK last month after crossing the Channel on a small boat.

On Thursday, he brought a claim against the Home Office and during the hearing in London, his barristers asked for "interim relief" so that a full legal challenge could be made against his deportation.

They called the decision "procedurally unfair" because he had not been given enough of an opportunity to provide evidence to support his claim that he was an "alleged trafficking victim".

However, the Home Office opposed the bid and told the court there was "no serious issue to be tried".

In his ruling, Mr Justice Sheldon said: "In my judgement, the application for interim relief is refused.

"The test for injunctive relief is not made out.

"I consider that there is no serious issue to be tried in this case."

The Eritrean migrant arrived in the UK having crossed the Channel on a small boat (file photo)

Having granted the migrant anonymity, Mr Justice Sheldon added there was "significant public interest in favour of the claimant's removal".

He also declared that the man had given a second account of his alleged trafficking that was "so different from the initial account provided".

The judge continued: "It was open to [the Home Office] to conclude that his credibility was severely damaged and his account of trafficking could not reasonably be believed."

According to Mr Justice Sheldon, when making its decision to deport the man, the Home Office had "sufficient information" and it was therefore "reasonable" to conclude that "further information would not make any material difference".

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He added: "This case had to take into account the situation in France, where, on the evidence before me, it is clear that the claimant will have an opportunity to put forward his case with respect to trafficking if he so wishes."

The judge said the migrant had claimed he was "forced to flee Eritrea in 2019 because of forced conscription".

He then spent time in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Libya before he travelled to France.

He stayed in Paris for around a week where he claimed he was "homeless and destitute, and constantly feared for his life".

The man briefly stayed in the jungle in Dunkirk

He then moved to "the jungle" in Dunkirk where he described experiencing a "complete lack of humanity" before he arrived in the UK via small boat.

UK Border Force detained him on August 6, and on August 9 he was told his asylum claim in the UK was inadmissible.

Mr Justice Sheldon said the aim of the so-called one-in, one-out deal between France and the UK was to "disrupt the business model" of the people organising the boat crossings, and "provide a deterrent" because unsafe journeys posed "a serious risk to life and limb".

The migrant is scheduled to be removed from the UK at 6.15am on Friday.