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The French president and the PM are co-hosting the Franco-British Summit on the final day of Macron's state visit to the UK.
Migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats to Dover as Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron were in crunch talks over a deal on curbing their numbers.People wearing life jackets arrived in Kent and disembarked from a Border Force boat amid sunny weather on Thursday.
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Al Jazeera on MSNStarmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ returns of asylum seekersBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are finalising a “one in, one out” scheme to curb crossings of refugees and migrants in small boats across the English Channel.
French President Emmanuel Macron to meet Keir Starmer in Downing Street, as part of negotiations over how the UK and France can better tackle migration across the channel.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on the need for new solutions to the problem of illegal migration on Wednesday, Starmer's office said, laying the groundwork for a bilateral summit on Thursday.
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron joked about Larry the cat, ahead of talks to finalise a plan on tackling migrants crossing the Channel on small boats.
Macron’s three-day visit, at the invitation of King Charles III, is the first state visit to the UK by a European Union head of state since Brexit.