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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Alexander Butler

UK politics live: Cooper refuses to criticise Macron’s Brexit swipe after more migrants arrive in Dover

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has refused to rebuke Emmanuel Macron’s claim Brexit was to blame for the rise of small boats crossing the English Channel.

Ms Cooper said “criminal smuggler gangs will weaponise anything that is happening” when asked if the French president had a point.

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