UK politics: Tories’ Philp rejects French claim that shots fired from naval boat near him were training exercise – as it happened

According to Chris Philp, the French authorities are now saying the shots fired from the boat near him in the Channel were just part of a training exercise. He has accused them of not telling the truth.

double quotation markThe French are now claiming that the shots were a training exercise

There were no warnings in place about live firing training exercises. They fired the live rounds at the closest point of approach to us - and didn’t fire anything that we saw before or after

It looked and sounded exactly like deliberate intimidation