Giorgia Meloni turns to Rishi Sunak to take battle against migration beyond EU

Giorgia Meloni and Rishi Sunak will chair a group to raise the need for more coordination between the EU and the UK. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Giorgia Meloni has turned to the UK’s prime minister Rishi Sunak to take her battle against migration beyond the EU, it has emerged.

In what some are dubbing the Spanish framework, the prime ministers have forced migration on to the agenda at a historic meeting of about 50 European leaders in Granada on Thursday.