Latest updates: UK and France have agreed extra measures ‘to remove pull factors bringing people to the Channel coast’, PM says
We want to have a close, cooperative, collaborative relationship with our European partners and allies and of course that starts with our nearest neighbour, France.Sunak said the biggest driver of inflation and cost-of-living are energy prices.
He said one of the “practical, tangible” things to come out of the summit today was around more cooperation on energy security, bringing together researchers, businesses and the two governments.We want to ease the pressures on the cost of living for them, the way to do that is to diversify and improve
our supply of energy and accelerate that transition to net zero and we’ve made good progress on that goal today.Macron said “we have to fix the consequences of Brexit”, many of which were “underestimated”, but which still need to be fixed through new close partnerships.Sunak says Channel crossings are a 'shared challenge'
Sunak stressed that work in Calais to dismantle criminal gangs and stop the crossing of small points are “joint efforts” and a “shared challenge”.He defended the UK’s £300m investment in French patrols as “good investments for the UK to make if they stop people coming and reduce pressure on our asylum system”.
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