was back on monday night the french president emmanuel macron said the french would not impose retaliatory measures for now. those included stopping british boats from off—loading their patches here in northern france, tighter border measures as well. he said he wanted to allow negotiations to continue. they have been continuing. it leads up they have been continuing. it leads up to today when a brexit minister lord frost travels to paris to meet with france's europe minister. interestingly, britain wants to talk about broader issues as well. for example arrangements and northern ireland filled my understanding is that men are due to meet for a couple of hours. to what extent they go into the nitty—gritty details of this licensing is not particularly clear. this needs to be seen in the wider context of tensions between united kingdom and france. there have been other issues like the defence deal which angered france greatly as well. expectations being played out in terms of a