Downing Street responds after French minister’s comments that UK is using France as a ‘punchbag’ in labour crisis

Downing Street has called on the French government to do more to stem the number of people travelling across the Channel in small boats amid a growing diplomatic row over who bears greater responsibility.

It follows an intervention from France’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin, who claimed that his country is being treated like a “punchbag” by a UK government which has failed to sort out its unregulated labour market.

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Source: The Guardian