Burnham meets Macron at No 10, as more French officers deployed to stop small boat crossings – UK politics live

Number of police on French coast has been increased amid smugglers’ rising use of so-called ‘mega-dinghies’Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said he will stand in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election which was triggered when Keir Starmer announced he was quitting as an MP.Good morning. Nothing is new in life or politics, and the concern that people feel about small boats crossing the Channel now is minimal compared to the alarm that Britons must have felt in 1066 as the Duke of Normandy’s invasion force arrived in England. Almost 1,000 years later, the horror is long forgotten and Andy Burnham was with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the British Museum last night to celebrate the Bayeux Tapestry as “the best possible symbol” of the “entente amicale” between France and the UK, as King Charles put it in a speech last night. Continue reading...