Macron urges Britain to ease asylum measures and keep promises

Prime Minister Boris Johnson alongside French President Emmanuel Macron (PA)

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the UK to make it easier for people to apply for asylum and harder to work illegally, in a bid to stem risky migration efforts across the English Channel.

Mr Macron also accused the British government of reneging on promises over fishing licences and of betraying French-British friendship by signing a secret submarine deal with the US and Australia that scuppered a rival French contract.