It’s Rishi Sunak’s big moment today as he tries to cut a new deal with the French to stop the small boats crisis. The Prime Minister will meet with President Emmanuel Macron later today at the Elysee Palace alongside senior ministers in the first Anglo-French summit for five years. Such shindigs never happened under Sunak’s predecessor Boris Johnson – the man whose tenure created so many of the problems still occupying ministers’ time.
And that impression of Sunak being haunted by the past won’t be dispelled by his latest social media gaffe. The Prime Minister took to Twitter this morning to eulogise the ‘deep’ partnership between the UK and France, replete with an image of the two smiling leaders striding forward together. Unfortunately no-one in the over-manned No. 10 press team thought to change the ‘Alt text’ so the image description still reads ‘Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Emmanuel Macron.
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