Analysis: there’s fury at Johnson tweeting out a letter to Macron – and some of the PM’s suggested five steps are inflammatory

France has reacted furiously to what officials variously called a “mediocre, unacceptable and wholly inappropriate” letter from Boris Johnson to Emmanuel Macron about the migrant Channel crossings.

The French interior minister cancelled a planned top-level meeting with home secretary Priti Patel, while government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said France was “sick and tired” of Britain’s “double talk and outsourcing of problems”.

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