EU leaders are said to be keen to make inroads with Starmer as they believe he is likely to be around for some time
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Sir Keir Starmer walk in the garden of Villa Doria Pamphili She leads a party widely considered to be far right – Brothers of Italy, as it is named, even has historic links to the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement – and was publicly very close toThe two rose to power around the same time and were often pictured embracing warmly, with Sunak regularly praising “Giorgia” forwhich has just won a decisive general election and consigned the Tories – and...
In Rome this week, they met for a working lunch – tomato ravioli for the vegetarian British PM. The leaders had so much to discuss that their meeting overran considerably and conversations continued during a walk in the garden of the 17th-century Villa Doria Pamphili. Against political instincts, the centre-left Labour leader has found himself looking to the right-wing Italian PM for advice on how he can find a way to deal with this challenge and not meet the same fate of the Tories before him who tried, and failed, to get a grip on the crisis.
Italy has seen a 60 per cent fall in such arrivals since it started investing more in tackling the issue upstream. The Labour Government wants to replicate this work through its new Border Security Command. His willingness to engage on such a topic raised eyebrows among those on the left, with some MPs uncomfortable with the first Labour government in years cosying up to a right-wing administration over the issue of migration.
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