France, in letter to Boris Johnson, rejects joint border patrol in Channel

French Prime Minister Jean Castex informed his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, that he rejected the thought of a joint British-French patrol within the English Channel to battle clandestine migration to Britain, a letter obtained by Reuters confirmed on Thursday.
“France is ready to pursue our operational cooperation with the United Kingdom”, the letter mentioned, however added: “We cannot accept … British police or military patrol on our coast. It’s a matter of our sovereignty.”
Johnson final week instructed a joint coast patrol in a letter he despatched to French President Emmanuel Macron — and later revealed on Twitter — after 27 migrants misplaced their lives within the Channel as they tried to achieve British shores.

Johnson’s tweet prompted outrage in France, resulting in Macron telling London to “get serious.”
“I’m surprised when things are not done seriously. We don’t communicate between leaders via tweets or published letters, we are not whistle-blowers. Come on. Come on,” Macron later informed a information convention in Rome.

Relations between the normal allies are already strained, together with by a current submarines take care of Australia which changed one it had with France, and a battle about post-Brexit fishing licences.
In Thursday’s letter, Castex reiterated that it was as much as Britain to resolve the continuing disaster. “A large part of the solution does not lie in France, but in the United Kingdom. In fact, you can deter the migrants who are not destined to settle [in Britain] from coming to your territory by conducting a more effective return policy.”