Why Italy can do what Britain cannot with migration
by James Crisp and Nick Squires, Telegraph:
The Rwanda Plan never took off – so how did Italy strike a similar asylum agreement?
Just two months after declaring the Rwanda Plan “dead and buried”, Sir Keir Starmer now says he is “interested” in Italy’s migrant deal with Albania.
The Prime Minister is in Rome for talks with his counterpart Giorgia Meloni and wants to discuss how to stop the boats after a drop in migrant numbers in Mediterranean countries.
Britain’s Rwanda flights never got off the ground – so how did Italy, which has long borne the brunt of illegal migrant arrivals in Europe, manage to strike a similar asylum agreement with Tirana? And what else can Sir Keir learn from the Italian crackdown?