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Coronavirus: UK lockdown began after France 'threatened to shut border with Britain'

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France threatened to close its border with Britain unless it introduced shutdown measures to stop the threat of Coronavirus, aides to President Emmanuel Macron claimed tonight.

The head of state's staff said that he called Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday night and told him that unless the situation quickly changed ‘France would have no other choice but to refuse entry for all travellers from the United Kingdom.’ Mr Johnson responded by announcing the shutdown of pubs, cafes, bars and restaurants, bringing Britain in line with its EU neighbours.

An Elysee Palace source told Liberation newspaper that if Mr Macron had carried out his threat to close all borders with the UK ‘all the other European states would have done the same,

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