Plans to automatically remove asylum seekers who have fled from designated "safe" countries are reportedly being reviewed by the government.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is looking at resurrecting a list of countries deemed to be safe by the Home Office in a bid to tackle the Channel crossings crisis impacting Kent.

Those arriving from these countries would be detained at the Manston processing site in Thanet - or at other reception centres - under the proposals.

Asylum claims of citizens from those countries would largely be regarded as unfounded, unless they are able to provide contrasting evidence, according to The Times.

There would be no right to appeal for rejected claimants and it is reported the list would include Albania.

Albanians accounted for more than a third of people detected crossing the English Channel in small boats in the first nine months of the year.

They also made up nearly half of those detected in July to September.

Home Office figures reveal there were 33,029 small boat arrivals in the UK from January to September this year.

Of this total, 11,241 (35%) were Albanian nationals and almost all of these have arrived since May.

"We value our Albanian community in the UK, and continue to welcome Albanians who travel to the UK legally and contribute to British society," a Home Office spokesperson said.

"However, this year we are seeing large numbers of Albanians risking their lives and making dangerous and unnecessary journeys to the UK through illegal means, and this is placing further strain on our asylum system.

"With co-operation from the Government of Albania, we are taking every opportunity to intercept the work of organised criminal gangs and people smugglers, and speeding up the removal of Albanians with no right to be in the UK."

The paper says the plans would emulate a New Labour policy from the early 2000s, in which asylum claimants from so-called “white-list” countries would have their applications dealt with in less than 10 days.

Migrants arriving in small boats from one of the countries deemed safe would reportedly be detained at the Manston processing site in Kent, or at other reception centres, as their asylum claims are expedited.

A Home Office spokesperson said in a statement: "We’ve been clear that we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to deter illegal migration, including returning those with no right to be in the UK to their home country.

"We return people who come to the UK illegally through a mixture of formal and information returns agreements with a number of countries, and we are always looking at ways to speed up removals and improve our returns processes with other countries."

It comes after more than 50 Tory MPs called for emergency new laws to block "bogus asylum seekers" from being allowed to settle in the UK.

Rishi Sunak has been urged by the group of backbenchers to rapidly introduce a "simple" change in the law to help reduce the number of small boat crossings of the Channel to Kent.

They also demand "economic migrants" travelling from "safe countries" such as Albania are returned more quickly.

The demand comes as Mr Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman face pressure to prevent the crossings and improve the conditions which asylum seekers experience in the UK.

Meanwhile, the Health Secretary has insisted the risk of the public getting diphtheria is “very low” despite an expected rise in the number of infections being recorded among asylum seekers.

Steve Barclay said hundreds of asylum seekers were vaccinated against the highly contagious disease before being moved out of the Manston processing centre to hotels around the country, but stressed the situation was being monitored “closely”.

The dozens of asylum seekers who have contracted diphtheria had the highly-contagious disease before arriving in the UK, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said on Sunday.

Health officials have raised concerns that some migrants have been moved from the site to other parts of the country while suffering from the serious infection, according to Sky News.