The Defence and Security Relationship Is at the Heart of the Bilateral Relationship

I don't think they're going to just somehow snap their fingers and come up with a way of stopping the migrant boats. I mean, let's not forget, it was 2021, we had Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeting that the French are still sore about Adjunct Court and Trafalgar. We had Liz Truss saying she wasn't really sure whether France was a friend or foe. So all of that kind of mood music really soured the ability of these bilateral talks to achieve anything. And as Lionel says, these are geo-strategic twins in many ways. The two nuclear powers in Europe. They're the two powers that use their military as a key part of