French President Emmanuel Macron has reacted angrily to Boris Johnson’s public call for France to take back migrants who reach the UK.
The French president accused the UK prime minister of not being “serious” by making the statement over Twitter.
The UK government urged it to reconsider, with the PM saying: “This is a problem we have to fix together.”
However, at a press conference on Friday, Mr Macron attacked Mr Johnson over the posting of the letter on Twitter, saying: “I spoke two days ago with Prime Minster Johnson in a serious way.
“For my part, I continue to do that, as I do with all countries and all leaders. I am surprised by methods when they are not serious.
“We do not communicate from one leader to another on these issues by tweets and letters that we make public. We are not whistleblowers.”
A French government spokesman accused Mr Johnson of saying different things in his conversation with Mr Macron and in the letter, adding: “We are sick of double-speak.”
But a Downing Street spokesman said: “We have spoken about many of these ideas before. The public understandably want to know what we are doing to prevent this happening again. We want to work closely with France.”
“If you look at the tone of the letter, this is about deepening our co-operation,” the spokesman added.
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