(Politico) France “needs no lesson from the British” on the dispute between Paris and London over the handling of migrants attempting to cross the Channel to reach British shores, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told French media on Monday.
“The British must stop using us as punching bags for their domestic politics,” Darmanin told CNews. The French minister will be meeting U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel at 7 p.m. in Paris.
“I will tell my British counterpart that NGOs preventing police from working are mostly British NGOs,” said Darmanin, “with British citizens that are doing agitprop on French territory.”
The French minister argued the influx of people risking their lives to reach the U.K. has something to do with the British labor market, “which, in the U.K., mostly works thanks to a reserve army, as Marx would say, of irregular workers who can be hired at low cost.”
