It’s been a testy few years of relations between Britain and France. But a meeting between the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday aimed to reset that relationship. It’s the first bilateral summit between the two states in five years. There was plenty on the agenda: the war in Ukraine, energy resources and European relations with China. But the issue dominating the meeting is the UK’s new controversial immigration bill. It would ban all migrants arriving in Britain on small boats from the shores of France. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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