UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reached a “one in, one out” migrant returns trial with French President Emmanuel Macron as they attempt to slash the number of people crossing the English Channel on dangerous small boats.

Migrants who arrive to the UK on small boats are set to be sent back to France ‘within weeks’, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced. Speaking at a press conference this afternoon in north London,

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Britain to stick close to its neighbors despite its exit from the European Union, saying France and the U.K. will “save Europe” by standing for democracy,

The French president is the first European leader to have a state visit to the UK and address a joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament since Brexit

The first state visit by an EU head of state since the U.K.'s acrimonious 2020 departure from the European Union, it is also the first by a French president since 2008.