U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Monday. The center-left British leader says he wants to learn how her right-wing government has achieved “dramatic declines” in the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores by boat.

Some on the left were already uneasy that the Prime Minister was willing to strike up a friendship with a hard-right populist and discuss ways of tackling illegal immigration

Starmer to give millions to far-right Italian PM Meloni to tackle irregular migration - Sir Keir has signalled he is open to pursuing an arrangement similar to Italy’s migration deal with Albania

THE UK HAS shown “great interest” in Italy’s migrant deal with Albania, Giorgia Meloni said, as Keir Starmer claimed his Government would make a return to “British pragmatism” on migration. Italian premier Meloni also brushed aside humanitarian concerns about her country’s deal with Albania as “completely groundless”.