Prime Minster Rishi Sunak has arrived in Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron. The PM will use talks to urge his French counterpart to 'go further' in joint efforts to stop asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in small boats.
He said:"I think now post the Windsor Framework being agreed, my hope is that [it] opens up other areas of constructive engagement and dialogue and cooperation with the EU.
"I think we are starting to see some of that from President von der Leyen the other week with regard to research collaboration but I think more generally there's a range of things now that we will be able to have a constructive and positive dialogue on, and so that's one of the things that I want to talk to them about."
However, he has conceded there will be no deal today about returning migrants from the UK to France after Mr Macron insisted this had to be decided at an EU-wide level and signs of division across the 27-member bloc.
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