IF he wanted, President Macron could solve the small boats crisis at a stroke.
He could agree to take back all illegal migrants, ending the cross-Channel racket overnight.
The incentive to set sail would be destroyed and the numbers trekking through France to reach the coast would dry up.
He won’t, of course. He revels in our discomfort. And here is the measure of the Parisian pipsqueak:
Macron WAS ready to let our Border Force patrol his beaches to target the criminals, until Liz Truss said she was undecided if he was “friend or foe”.