Channel deaths: Priti Patel disinvited to meeting with France
by Rajeev Syal and Jon Henley from World news | The Guardian on (#5SC14)
Boris Johnson's public letter to Emmanuel Macron on Channel drownings deemed unacceptable'
The French government has withdrawn an invitation to the home secretary, Priti Patel, to attend a meeting about the Channel boats crisis after Boris Johnson called on France to take back people who crossed the Channel to the UK in small boats.
In an escalation of the political crisis after the deaths of 27 people in the Channel, the French interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, has written to Patel to say a meeting on Sunday would proceed without British involvement.
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