Emmanuel Macron has blamed Brexiteers for the small boats crisis as he agreed a “grondbreaking” migrant returns deal with Keir Starmer in a bid to solve the issue. The French president said British voters had been misled before the EU referendum in 2016.

Sir Keir Starmer has announced a “groundbreaking” one in, one out deal with Emmanuel Macron to return small boats migrants in exchange for asylum seekers in France. The UK’s new migration deal with France will show people that attempting to cross the Channel in small boats will be “in vain”,

Starmer and Macron will hold a bilateral summit today - with a deal aimed at deterring migrants from crossing the Channel in small boats from France expected to top the agenda.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrived in Windsor for the start of a three-day state visit – the first by a French president since 2008. Prince William and Kate Middleton welcomed the dignitaries when they touched down at RAF Northolt in West London,