What else can you do but laugh? Former human rights supremo Sir Keir Starmer has done a deal to tackle illegal migrants with Giorgia Meloni – who is called ‘the heir to Mussolini’ by many on the left and in the media.
The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, was in Rome at the weekend with a team of civil servants and police chiefs to put the finishing touches on the deal with Italy’s Interior Minister, Matteo Piantedosi.
The deal will create what the Home Office grandiosely describes as ‘a new taskforce with Mafia-busting style tactics to seize the ill-gotten gains of criminal people smuggling gangs’.
Cooper also took part in a half-hour chat with Piantedosi on the stage at the youth festival of Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party which many on the left insinuate is similar to the fascist rallies of old. Mischievously asked by the moderator about who on stage was left wing or right wing, the Home Secretary avoided giving a proper answer.
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