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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Yvette Cooper hails new French tactics to reduce Channel crossings

A boat with three officials on board moves towards another boat heavily laden with people and floating low in the water
A boat intercepts another vessel carrying people thought to be refugees and migrants in the Channel off Calais on Friday. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Media

Yvette Cooper has lauded new tactics used by the French to reduce the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats, before Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the UK this week, during which new initiatives are likely to be announced.

It is understood that a French review of how police could intervene to block boats that are already in the water has been completed, and French and British officials were continuing talks this weekend about what more could be done.

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