'He is an enemy of Britain!' Emmanuel Macron branded 'useless' in blistering rant over UK state visit

WATCH NOW: Carole Malone slams Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the UK

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By Georgia Pearce


Published: 10/07/2025

- 13:54

The French President met with Sir Keir Starmer to thrash out a migrant deal

Carole Malone has launched a scathing attack on Emmanuel Macron amid his state visit to the UK, branding the French President "useless".

On his final day of a three-day trip to Britain, Macron declared that the UK was "stronger with the European Union", and that dealing with the Channel migrant crisis is a "shared responsibility".


Macron stated: "I'm not one to decide for your country... I would love to see our two countries working closely together for our common future... taking much more risk together, investing much more together.

"We want to write our future and not have the story be written by another continent. The only way to choose our future is to do it together."

Carole Malone, Emmanuel Macron

Carole Malone has hit out at 'useless' Emmanuel Macron amid his three-day UK state visit

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Delivering her verdict on Macron's visit, Malone told GB News: "This is all just a PR exercise, it's sort of to justify Macron's state visit, which I'd really like to talk about.

"Why are we giving this fake, useless politician a state visit?"

In a direct criticism of Macron, the journalist fumed: "He is an enemy of this country. He tried to destroy us over Brexit, and if he's our closest allies, no wonder we're in a mess."

Casting doubt on the UK's migrant deal with France, which proposes a "one in, one out" system, Malone declared that the plan will "never work".

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Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron chair the UK-France Summit

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"This was never going to work. It shouldn't be one in, one out. It should be none in, all out. And that's what he should be talking about.

"The point is, Starmer is depending too much on another country to secure our borders. This is the problem, it is not Macron's job to secure our borders."

In further criticism of Starmer, Malone claimed that the Prime Minister is "caving to the EU" rather than leading Britain.

She told GB News: "Starmer is so embedded to the EU and to the bloc, and he's given away our fishing rights again for the next 12 years to the EU.

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Malone told GB News that Keir Starmer 'caves instead of leads'

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"Starmer caves and he can't lead, so he looks to people who he thinks can lead, and Macron is taking the Mickey Adams. We've given the thick end of a billion quid over the last decade and we've got more migrants than ever before."

Defending Starmer and Macron's cooperation, Jonathan Lis claimed the relationship between the UK and France is "vitally important" for both countries.

Lis explained: "The leaders of a country and not the country themselves. The relationship between Britain and France is incredibly important, and it always has been.

"And so this is the first state visit that we've had with a leader of with a European country since Brexit, and it's very important optics and politics for us."