French President Emmanuel Macron has said the UK and France "will deliver" on stopping small boat crossings, ahead of negotiations with Sir Keir Starmer this week. Downing Street is hoping to finalise a deal on border enforcement during Macron's three-day state visit, the first by a French president since 2008.

Keir Starmer is heading for a showdown with France’s President Emmanuel Macron over small boat migrants, when the pair meet in the UK this week. The Prime Minister is demanding French police take more action to stop migrants departing France to make the perilous journey across the Channel in small boats,

The prime minister is facing a fight to salvage his much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ deal with France to return illegal migrants