You can do little but laugh at the absurdity of the world when a top Left-wing human rights barrister such as Keir Starmer flies to Rome to seek the advice of Right-wing Giorgia Meloni on how best to offshore migrants Rwanda-style, except in Italy’s case, it’s in Albania.
Sir Keir famously cancelled the Tory scheme to offshore illegal immigrants to the UK to Rwanda as soon as he came to power, calling it a gimmick. Yet here he is on Monday in Rome talking to Italy's prime minister – often defined abroad as the heir to Mussolini – about among other things her similar scheme to offshore up to 36,000 migrants a year to Albania, which is due to launch at the end of this month. It will make Italy the first European country to offshore migrants to a non-EU country.
