Far-right Italian PM says she is ‘in tune on many issues’ with Keir Starmer

Giorgia Meloni says she and Starmer agree on need to explore ‘innovative solutions’ to illegal immigration

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has said she is “in tune on many issues” with her British counterpart, Keir Starmer, especially “the fight against mass illegal immigration” and the need to explore “innovative solutions” when it comes to processing asylum claims, touting Italy’s controversial agreement with Albania.

Meloni told the weekly magazine of the Corriere della Sera newspaper that her relations with Starmer, who is from the opposite end of the political spectrum to her far-right Brothers of Italy party, were “very good”.

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