Mr Macron, who is due to visit Calais tomorrow, wants to raise the issue at talks with Mrs May at Sandhurst on Thursday. Gérard Collomb, the interior minister, has said that France is seeking pledges from Britain to take in migrants and increase its funding for border security in Calais.

Le Monde said Mr Macron believed the time was ripe to secure Mrs May’s help in curbing the crisis in and around Calais, where about a thousand migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and elsewhere are sleeping rough. He will demand that Britain take more migrants [...]

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