France Disputes UK Account of Meeting on Channel Migrants

France Disputes UK Account of Meeting on Channel Migrants
Migrants at a makeshift camp on the site of a former industrial complex east of Dunkirk, France, on Nov. 16, 2021. PA
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France has rejected a British claim that Home Secretary Priti Patel and her French counterpart Gerald Darmanin agreed to work to prevent “100 [percent] of crossings” of the English Channel.

The Home Office issued a joint statement from the pair which said they had agreed on measures to “stop the dangerous crossings” of the “deadly route.”