The UK will pay France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.
Following a summit with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday, Sunak said the UK has agreed to send Paris £478 million ($577 million) to fund a new detention centre in France and the hiring of hundreds of extra French law enforcement officers.
