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British navy warship escorts Russian frigate in waters close to UK

Britain's Royal Navy said on Monday that it was escorting a Russian frigate and tanker in waters close to the UK having shadowed the vessels through the Channel on Sunday morning.

Reuters

MPs debate government plans to stop small boats crossing English Channel

MPs debated the government’s Illegal Migration Bill in the House of Commons on Monday (13 March).

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak urged by top Tory to make small boats bill ‘tough and humane’

Rishi Sunak was urged on Monday by a senior Tory to amend his flagship immigration bill to make it “humane” as well as “tough” by opening up safe and legal asylum routes at the same time as clamping down on the flow of small boats across the Channel.

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Migrants waiting to cross Channel thank 'hero' Gary Lineker for opposing immigration bill

Ahmad Harris, who fled Kabul six months ago and has family in the UK, has compared the BBC's move to silence Gary Lineker to the tactics of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Daily Mirror

Stopping migrants crossing Channel 'not a priority for most British voters'

Small boats controversy is only a crucial issue for less than a fifth of people, while 67pc cite cost of living and 58pc the NHS

Wales Online

Stopping Channel crossings not public’s main priority, polling suggests

Cost of living, the NHS and better-paid jobs were main concerns for more people, according to the research by Ipsos.

The Independent UK

UK to pay France £500m to prevent small boat Channel crossings

BRITAIN will pay France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent small boats from crossing the Channel,…

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Macron, Sunak agree deal to stop illegal cross-Channel migration

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday agreed a new pact worth over 500 million euros to stop illegal cross-Channel migration, at a summit in Paris aimed at forging a new start after years of Brexit tensions.

Radio France Internationale

Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron to ramp up border security in multi-million-pound deal

Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron celebrate a "new chapter" in UK-France relations as they sign an agreement that will see French border security heightened to prevent asylum seekers crossing the English Channel

ABC News

UK to help fund immigration detention centre in France, says Rishi Sunak

PM announces £500m package to stop people trying to cross Channel, after meeting Emmanuel Macron in Paris

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak says paying France to stop small boats crossing Channel is a ‘sensible investment’

The prime minister is in Paris for his first summit with Emmanuel Macron as he bids to reset Anglo-French relations

The Independent UK

Sunak defends Government’s asylum policy following criticism from Lineker

The row was sparked by Gary Lineker’s response on Twitter to a Home Office video unveiling plans to stop migrants crossing the Channel.

The Independent UK

French, British Leaders Meet in Efforts to Mend Relations

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was meeting Friday in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron in efforts to mend relations following post-Brexit tensions, as well as improving military and business ties and toughening efforts against Channel migrant crossings. Both leaders shook hands and briefly posed for photographers, smiling, as Sunak…

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French, British leaders meet in efforts to mend relations

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron in efforts to mend relations following post-Brexit tensions; improving military and business ties; and toughening efforts against Channel migrant crossings

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The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak announces new detention centre in northern France after meeting with Emmanuel Macron – as it happened

Latest updates: UK and France have agreed extra measures ‘to remove pull factors bringing people to the Channel coast’, PM says

The Guardian - UK

Cleverly opposes immigration centre in own seat as he urges French to do more

Foreign secretary says former RAF base in Essex constituency is unsuitable as he enters Paris talks about stopping Channel boats

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: What’s at stake in Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron’s crucial summit

In today’s newsletter: The two prime ministers meet at a vital time for both countries – will Sunak prove more cooperative than his predecessors?

The Guardian - UK

Sunak and Macron must navigate boat issues to reset Anglo-French relations

Channel crossings and Aukus pact will be central to talks that could also improve Britain’s standing with the EU

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Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak to push Emmanuel Macron to ‘go further’ on joint effort to stop small boat crossings

Rishi Sunak will use talks with President Emmanuel Macron to push for France to “go further” on joint efforts to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, No 10 said.

Radio France Internationale

First France-UK summit in five years hopes to mend battered friendship

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will seek to reset cross-Channel relations at a meeting on Friday that signals an end to years of post-Brexit feuding.

Chronicle Live

Asylum seekers in Newcastle slam Government's lifetime ban for Channel small boat migrants

Proposals unveiled this week would permanently ban migrants who enter the UK illegally from re-entering the country or gaining citizenship

Radio France Internationale

UN rights chief slams UK plan to ban asylum claims by Channel migrants

The United Nations refugee agency has criticised a British draft law that would outlaw asylum claims by anyone arriving in the country illegally. The UNHCR has warned that such legislation could violate international law.

The Conversation

The government's plan to remove asylum seekers will be a logistical mess – and may not deter people from coming to the UK

In its new illegal migration bill, the UK government has introduced some surprisingly radical proposals designed to discourage people from crossing the Channel in small boats to claim asylum.

Evening Standard

Gary Lineker hits back at Penny Mordaunt ‘leftwing striker’ jab as row rages over his asylum policy tweet

The Match of the Day presenter sparked outrage from some MPs after he likened Suella Braverman’s Channel boats policy to Nazi Germany

The Guardian - UK

A welcome return to normality: how France sees the Macron-Sunak summit

Élysée sees moment as a turning of the page after a nightmare chapter in cross-Channel relations

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