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"I am surprised by the methods when they are not serious," said Macron when asked about the letter.

"We do not communicate from one leader to another on these issues by tweets and letters that we make public, we are not whistleblowers. Come on, let's go," insisted the French president, at a press conference in Rome after the signing of a treaty with Italy.


Government spokesman Gabriel Attal dismissed Johnson's proposals as "clearly not what we need to solve this problem".

He said the letter "doesn't correspond at all" with discussions that Johnson and Macron had on Wednesday.