(AFP) France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex is preparing to write to British counterpart Boris Johnson with proposals for a new post-Brexit deal on migration with the EU after the disaster in the Channel last week that left 27 migrants dead, a minister said Monday.
Castex will write to Johnson on Tuesday, less than a week after a letter penned by the British premier to President Emmanuel Macron and immediately posted on Twitter angered France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Darmanin told reporters that France was prepared to resume discussions with the UK on the issue — after pointedly disinviting Home Secretary Priti Patel from a meeting of European ministers at the weekend — but only once the “double talk” stopped in London.
