Not all is harmonious in Carbis Bay this morning. Amid the sun and sea air, a row has erupted between Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron reportedly suggested to the Prime Minister that Northern Ireland was not part of the same country as the rest of the UK, as part of a heated discussion about sausages, which have become symbolic of the trading difficulties imposed by the Northern Ireland Protocol. The Foreign Secretary, who is also in attendance at the G7 summit, spoke to Andrew Marr about the incident:
DR: It is a failure to understand the facts… We wouldn’t talk about Catalonia in Spain or Corsica in France in those ways… It has real repercussions on the ground… What we want is a bit of respect from the other side, a bit of flexibility, a bit of goodwill.
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