Latest updates: foreign secretary avoids giving exact numbers on how increasing cooperation with France will affect small boat crossings
will be arriving in Bali later for the G20 summit, but he has been speaking to the journalists travelling with him on his plane about a deal announced this morning with France, to increase cooperation on tackling people using small boats to cross the Channel. Here is our story, by my colleaguestold reporters there was no “single thing” that would solve the small boats problem, but he said he was “confident we can bring the numbers down over time”.
But the government won’t say what difference it expects the deal with the French announced today to make., the foreign secretary, has been giving interviews this morning and he has been dodging questions on this point. On the Today programme he said that cooperation with the French was already making a difference and that 29,000 people had been stopped from getting to the UK this year – almost twice as many as in previous years.
try to monitor the comments below the line but it is impossible to read them all. If you have a direct question, do include “Andrew” in it somewhere and I’m more likely to find it. I do try to answer questions and, if they are of general interest, I will post the question and reply above the line , although I can’t promise to do this for everyone.
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