Kemi Badenoch has hit out at Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion that Brexit is the cause for a rise in the number of small boats crossing the English Channel.The Conservative leader, a supporter of the leave campaign in the 2016 referendum,

French President Emmanuel Macron has blamed Brexit for the small boat crisis in the English Channel as he unveiled a new migrant returns deal with Keir Starmer.The one in, one out pilot scheme was described by Starmer as a “breakthrough” in his Government’s attempt to stop boat crossings.

Emmanuel Macron said British people had been “sold a lie” as he blamed Brexit for the Channel migrant crisis. Mr Macron spoke out as he and Sir Keir Starmer unveiled the ‘one in, one out’ deal aimed at returning Channel migrants to France.