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UK and France sign post-Brexit Channel security pact

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab talks up ‘close’ ties with Paris on visit

Britain and France today signed a limited post-Brexit security treaty aimed at protecting passengers on Channel ferries from terror attacks.

  • Matt Honeycombe-Foster
  • Politico

The U.K.’s Foreign Office said the agreement between the two countries will allow them to share security information on potential threats; mount “swifter and stronger initial responses to serious security incidents…

While it will allow the two countries’ security services to work more closely together, the new pact is not aimed at tackling illegal cross-Channel migration, for which the Foreign Office said “other initiatives and…

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