France has hit back at accusations from the UK government that it is failing to prevent migrants from crossing the English Channel, a senior minister saying "we don't have any lessons to take from the British".
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called on London to stop using the French as "punchbags in domestic politics", ahead of a meeting in Paris later on Monday with his UK counterpart Priti Patel.
One day last week saw a record daily number of migrant crossings from France to England — at least 1,185 according to the UK government — while the annual number has more than doubled.
Politicians from Britain's ruling Conservative Party and right-wing newspapers have accused the French of not doing enough to prevent people from making the
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