French president confronts Boris Johnson over standoff on Northern Ireland protocol in talks at G7

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has issued a robust warning to Boris Johnson, telling him the British government must “honour their word” over the Brexit deal, as he called for a “reset” in relations between their two countries.

Macron confronted the prime minister over the standoff on the Northern Ireland protocol, when the pair held a bilateral meeting at the G7 summit in Cornwall on Saturday morning.

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