Forty one migrants, including three children, have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa as they attempted to make the most deadly crossing for small boats in the world.
The two leaders have ushered in a new era in Anglo-French relations at the first bilateral summit in five long years.
Rishi Sunak has launched a fierce defence of his Illegal Migration Bill, but the jury’s still out on whether his political gambit will pay off.
Sunak’s new legislation seeks to ban those entering Britain via illegal routes from making an asylum claim here. But it will almost certainly lead to multiple legal challenges.
A government in which Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt occupy Number 10 and 11 respectively is, to the point of caricature, a cosmopolitan regime, the personification of Davos Man.
Truss and Macron’s Great Reset paves way for deals on energy and migration.
Both sides could benefit from increased co-operation, especially on energy-related matters. But resolving channel crossings, protocol and, not least, fisheries spats is no small task.
The number of asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats has been zero for the last five days.
Even Nigel Farage has criticised Johnson’s nonsensical plan to fly asylum seekers 4,000 miles to Rwanda.
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