Trump\u2019s virulent attack on European leaders \u2014 who he said were \u201cweak\u201d and presiding over \u201cdecaying\u201d nations due to mass migration \u2014 did not come up during her meetings on Wednesday, which included talks with European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner and Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Pr\u00e9vot, Cooper said.<\/p>\n
Cooper announced earlier Wednesday that the U.K. Foreign Office will double the size of its migration unit, which is involved in discussions around the return of migrants to other countries. <\/p>\n
The U.K. foreign secretary did not rule out taking up an offer by Jordan Bardella, the leader of France\u2019s far-right National Rally, to conduct \u201cpushbacks\u201d of migrant boats in the English Channel if his party wins power.<\/p>\n
Such a move, never previously accepted by France, would involve British Border Force boats directing laden dinghies, bound for the U.K., to turn around at sea.<\/p>\n
Cooper suggested the U.K.\u2019s focus is on French police, rather than pushback powers for the U.K. Border Force. \u201cYou\u2019re seeing those boats set off. Once they\u2019re in the water, then the previous rules have meant that the French police have not been able to actually take action. We need that to happen. That\u2019s been agreed in principle. We need to see that in force,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
However, she declined to directly criticize the idea of pushback, which opponents argue could cause more migrants to drown in the Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s virulent attack on European leaders \u2014 who he said were \u201cweak\u201d and presiding over \u201cdecaying\u201d nations due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[816,5704,627,141,20069,819,59,57,58,937,2795,48834,123444,16420,821,2363,50,1351,1644,56,157,54,158,55,161,20765],"class_list":["post-309190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-borders","tag-conflict","tag-david-lammy","tag-donald-trump","tag-egypt","tag-france","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-human-rights","tag-immigration","tag-jordan-bardella","tag-magnus-brunner","tag-marco-rubio","tag-migration","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-security","tag-turkey","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-yvette-cooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}