Macron ‘threatened to close border with UK unless it stiffened coronavirus measures’
Reports say Mr Macron told Mr Johnson on Friday morning that he would ban entry to all UK travelers unless new measures were introduced
Macron is said to have threatened to close the border with the UK unless Boris Johnson clamped down on measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The French President was said to have spoken to the Prime Minister on Friday morning informing him that if he did not introduce more strident measures on the public he would be forced to close the border, according to the French newspaper Libération.
It reported that Mr Macron gave Mr Johnson an ultimatum where he threatened an entry ban on any traveler from the UK if there were no new measures.
“We had to clearly threaten him to make him finally budge,” the report quoted an Elysee official as saying.
