Boris Johnson has said he suspected France’s Emmanuel Macron of “weaponising” the small boats crisis to “punish” Brexit Britain. Writing in his forthcoming memoir Unleashed, the former Prime Minister suggested Mr Macron discreetly allowed migrants to cross the Channel to “drive the British public nuts”.

French President Emmanuel Macron was a "positive nuisance" during acrimonious Brexit negotiations and wanted to punish the UK for leaving the EU, former British prime minister Boris Johnson has claimed.

In his upcoming memoir, Boris Johnson has described how he felt that the French president sought to punish Britain for Brexit and has laid out how he took revenge.

Emmanuel Macron “weaponised” the small boats crisis to punish Britain for Brexit, Boris Johnson has suggested.

French President Emmanuel Macron saw Brexit as ‘a terrible snub to the EU and to his view of the world', Boris Johnson claims in his memoir ‘Unleashed’