It’s not just Brexit causing ructions between Britain and France; President Macron and his ministers have publicly criticised the UK’s vaccine rollout strategy, claiming the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine appears “quasi-ineffective” in the over 65s.
That claim has been strongly rejected by the vaccine’s developers and the UK government.
But Mr Macron is battling for his own political survival against a surge in support for the far right Marine Le Pen.