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Boris Johnson’s Franglais dig at Emmanuel Macron showed an entente pas très cordiale

Addressing the press during his visit to Washington, Boris Johnson took a swipe at France for the diplomatic row over the Aukus agreement, which saw France lose out on a multi-billion euro sale of submarines to Australia, in favour of a purchase from the UK.

Without naming names, he told reporters –

“I just think it’s time for some of our dearest friends around the world to ‘prenez un grip’ about all this and ‘donnez-moi un break’, because this is fundamentally a great step forward for global security.”

Less Aukus than Auk-ward. It’s even more cringeworthy dans le flesh.

Tweeters had some thoughts on this latest piece of Johnsonian diplomacy – and they weren’t flattering.

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If the PM were fluent in French – as he reportedly is – he’d know that ‘grip’ was a poor choice of words because the word ‘grippe’ is French for ‘flu.

We patiently await the ‘Fermez votre cake-hole!’ message from France.

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