4 h. ago Macron to arrive in UK with Starmer set to press for help on small boats

Mr Macron’s trip is the first state visit by a French president since 2008.

Politics

4 h. ago King to highlight vital bond with France over threats that ‘know no borders’

The monarch, who is to host French President Emmanuel Macron on a three-day state visit, will say ‘As friends and as allies, we face them together’.

Events

6 h. ago Hand back our £771MILLION Mr Macron.. s'il vous plait: French President to face questions over his country's failure to dent small boat crisis as he arrives in Britain

Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Macron are due to hold a bilateral summit on Thursday at the end of the president's three-day state visit, which begins tomorrow morning with a royal welcome.

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10 h. ago The Guardian view on Macron’s state visit: a renewed entente cordiale is good for France, Britain and Europe | Editorial

After being sabotaged in the Brexit years, one of the UK’s most important bilateral relationships is back on a firm footingIn the years after the Brexit referendum, the deterioration of Anglo-French relations became one measure of the sorry disconnect between a radicalised, reckless Conservative party and any sane notion of the national interest. In 2021, a bellicose Boris Johnson sent Royal Navy frigates to patrol off the coast of Jersey in response to a dispute with Paris over fishing rights. The following year, notoriously, Liz Truss declined to say whether she considered the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to be a friend or foe to Britain. For five years, no Franco-British bilateral summits took place at all.That, thankfully, was then. France and Britain are close neighbours, nuclear powers and members of the United Nations security council. At a time of acute geopolitical instability, fuelled in part by the return of Donald Trump to the White House, it is overwhelm...

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14 h. ago France 'intensifies' efforts to stop 'small boat' migrant crossings, says No10 ahead of Macron UK state visit

The French president will arrive in Britain on Tuesday for a three-day state visit

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23 h. ago Macron’s UK state visit underlines effort to move on from Brexit nightmare

Bitter rows had damaged trust and dialogue but UK-French relations have thawed amid new geopolitical landscapeWhen Emmanuel Macron rides in a horse-drawn carriage to Windsor Castle this week, it will be to celebrate the return of close political relations between London and Paris, drawing a line under the damaging spats of the Brexit years.The French president’s office said the “shared interests” of the two countries were what mattered now, hailing France and the UK’s “essential” close relationship on the international stage. This reinvigorated cross-Channel bond was “vital”, a UK official said. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago Starmer and Macron hope for ‘progress’ on defence and migration at summit

The two leaders will hold a summit when the French President travels to the UK for a state visit next week.

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3 d. ago Princess and Princess of Wales to join King and Queen for Emmanuel Macron's state visit carriage ride

The King will reunite French president Emmanuel Macron with a horse he gifted to Elizabeth II during next week’s state visit

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3 d. ago Kate Middleton handed huge royal duty as Palace issues major update

The Princess of Wales is set to play a huge role alongside Prince William when French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte travel to the UK on a state visit next week

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5 d. ago Europe 'doomed to war with Russia,' as Putin puppet demands strikes against continent

Russian state TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov has called Britain's prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz satanists

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6 d. ago Judge rules Afghan migrant was a child when he arrived in Britain despite assessment finding he was 'fully developed with grey hairs' and 'lacked a youthful glow'

An Afghan asylum seeker was a child when he arrived in Britain, despite having grey hairs and authorities finding he lacked a 'youthful glow', a UK judge has ruled. 

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7 d. ago French President Emmanuel Macron labels tariffs as “blackmail”

Macron also urged support - and a rethinking - of the World Trade Organization to bring it in line with goals to fight inequality and climate change.

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1 week ago The drug kingpin who made £2.5m a month: Gangland boss is hauled back to UK from Dubai after planning hit and being brought down by his own EncroChats

James Harding, 34, was arrested by counter terrorist specialist firearms officers at a London airport in May 2022 after being extradited from Switzerland on a private jet.

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1 week ago Drug kingpin who plotted gangland murder from Dubai and smuggled £100m of cocaine into Britain is convicted after EncroChat probe

James Harding, 34, was arrested by counter terrorist specialist firearms officers at a London airport in May 2022 after being extradited from Switzerland on a private jet.

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1 week ago Glastonbury gates open: Thousands arrive early to bag their places for Britain's biggest music festival as organiser Emily Eavis confirms Kneecap are 'welcome'

This year's event at Worthy Farm in Somerset will see headline performances from British rock/pop band The 1975, veteran singer Neil Young and his band the Chrome Hearts, and US popstar Olivia Rodrigo.

Culture

1 week ago Glastonbury gates open: Thousands arrive early to bag their places for Britain's biggest music festival

This year's event at Worthy Farm in Somerset will see headline performances from British rock/pop band The 1975, veteran singer Neil Young and his band the Chrome Hearts, and US popstar Olivia Rodrigo.

Culture

1 week ago Welcome back...good to see you! Moment counter terror cops arrested drug kingpin as he arrives back in Britain after he plotted gangland murder from his Dubai villa

James Harding, 34, was arrested by counter terrorist specialist firearms officers at a London airport in May 2022 after being extradited from Switzerland on a private jet.

Events

2 w. ago Dozens of Brits airlifted out of Israel by RAF as Middle East faces 'perilous moment'

The Foreign Secretary David Lammy said 63 Brits were evacuated from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport to Cyprus on an RAF A400. They were expected to arrive back in Britain on Monday evening

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2 w. ago Jamaican drug dealer claims she should be allowed to remain in the UK...because her six attempts to stay so far have been bad for her mental health

The woman, who has not been named, arrived in Britain in 2002 and was jailed for six years the following year for selling Class A drugs.

Economics

2 w. ago Jamaican drug dealer claims she should be allowed to remain in the UK as her six attempts to stay so far have been bad for her mental health

The woman, who has not been named, arrived in Britain in 2002 and was jailed for six years the following year for selling Class A drugs.

Economics