Does Starmer have the gall to send asylum seekers to Albania?

Sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda would, of course, be a moral outrage. We know this because Labour shadow ministers kept telling us so when the previous government wanted to do just this. Fortunately, however, there is a far more ethical alternative: to send them to Albania instead – something which Keir Starmer is considering after meeting with Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni to learn how her government has successfully reduced small boat arrivals over the past year. Starmer said he was ‘interested’ to see how the Albania processing scheme developed by the Italian government would work.

Let’s brush over the left’s attitude towards Meloni: when Rishi Sunak was establishing a rapport with her last year she was a neo fascist; now she suddenly seems to have graduated to being a respectable national leader with lots of ideas to offer our own enlightened, grown up government. But