Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from politics home with me Alan Tolest.

Or should I say this week, bonjour and bienvenu. As with this week's state visit to Britain by

Emmanuel Macron, we're looking at the state of UK Franco relations and how important a new

Entente Cordial is to Kirstarmer as he deals with political problems, both home and abroad.

We'll mean to discuss why the French president is open to a reproschement after a pretty frosty few years post-Brexit,

what both sides have been able to agree on so far and what still divides them,

and delighted to be joined by a fantastic panel, started with Sir Peter Westmacott, a former UK ambassador to France, as well as Ben Lake,

Plaid Cumbary MP, and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on France.

Alongside him is Francois-Chicin, Director at Flint Global and a former career diplomat in the

French diplomatic service. Adam Plowwright, ex-depity editor-in-chief for Europe at Azonfront

Press, and a biographer of Emmanuel Macron. And finally, my colleague Matilda Martin, reporter at Politics Home, who's been covering the state visit for us.

So I'm going to start with you, Matilda. We're recording this ahead of the big press conference on Thursday afternoon.

But wherever we kind of got to so far and what have been the big agreement so far between the two governments? Yeah, sure. So I guess it's probably

worth mentioning straight off that this is part of a three-day state visit. It's a first state

visit of an EU leader since Brexit. It's a quite a big deal. And also the first of French leaders

since 2008. So they've quite a big deal. And also the first of French leaders since 2008.

So they've certainly got a lot to get through. Obviously, the main part of this visit has been

the want to get that migration deal over the line, that one in one out deal that we can talk about

a bit later. But we've also had some deals already

announced on defence and security, nuclear power as well. And we've obviously got a kind of

huge, huge meeting of the coalition of the willing today as well. So we can probably expect

something to come out of that might be quite substantial, might be something a little bit

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