Today, the Home Office claimed that it has “almost abandoned” negotiations with France for a new agreement to deal with Channel migrant crossings. This was despite having been made public today.
Officials of Priti Paitel have begun to plan how to make it more difficult for people to travel in small boats. This is after 2021 set a new high.
The proposals will be made to Paris ‘once there is no heat in the election’, as Emmanuel Macron fights for his job.
After 2021, a record-breaking number of people made small boat trips in perilous boats, officials at Priti Patel are working to prevent them.
However, the Paris proposals won’t be submitted to Paris ‘once heat has passed’. Emmanuel Macron is fighting to retain his job.
After navigating the busy shipping lanes of France with small boats, estimates suggest that over 27,000 people arrived in Britain last year.
It is almost three times as many people crossed the border in 2020 than were previously recorded.
Paris and London held emergency talks to try to reach an agreement on stopping crossings after the November sinking of a vessel.
However, a breakthrough was not possible amid the rumbling dispute between Boris Johnson (Mr Macron) over many issues such as Brexit fishing rights.
According to The Times, one official from the Home Office who participated in Paris talks told The Times that: “Non,” non, non and non were all the responses of Macron’s officials to our proposals.
“They did not have to make it clear, but they basically said that there was no way of breaking through before the election.
According to estimates, more than 27,000 migrants arrived in the UK last year via France’s busy shipping routes. Pictured are migrants arriving in Dover aboard a Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI), lifeboat, on December 16.
According to officials, Mr Macron has not offered any concessions regarding the matter before the election.
After the April poll, they are looking for a breakthrough and hope that the next French president (or Mr Macron) will bring new ideas to the table.
The UK Government has been pushing the Nationality and Borders Bill, which would fundamentally overhaul the asylum system, through Parliament.