Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - politics Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailFrench President Emmanuel Macron comes to Britain next week – the first foreign leader to set first on UK soil since the coronavirus lockdown. He arrives in London on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of “Gaulle's Appel” – the famous speech given by Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French Forces, in 1940. He addressed the French people from London after the fall of France – and declared the war for France was not yet over. But, unlike most foreign travellers arriving from abroad, Mr Macron will not have to self-isolate for 14 days after landing in the UK before being allowed out. Mr Macron needs a boost in France where his presidency has suffered from 18 months of protests and strikes, and the coronavirus pandemic that has killed 29,000 people.

Source: Daily Mirror June 12, 2020 15:57 UTC