During Sir Keir Starmer’s first phone call with Donald Trump since the President’s inauguration, the two leaders discussed the ceasefire in Gaza and the economy. We don’t know if Starmer and Trump touched on the topic of illegal migration during their conversation late last night, but, if not, Starmer missed a trick. He has much to learn from Trump about how to handle this thorny subject.
Whether Sir Keir will learn any lessons from Trump’s short way of dealing with illegal migration is doubtful
Late last week, as a first taste of the President’s pledge to send ‘millions’ of illicit migrants back to their countries of origin, two U.S. military aircraft filled with migrants strapped into their seats had taken off bound for Bogotá, the capital of the Latin American state of Colombia.
However, Colombia refused to let the planes land, and they returned to the US with their unwilling passengers still uncomfortably packed into their seats.
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