The British genius for seeing the cloud attached to every silver lining was on display this week. Only 50 a week? That’s more like 17 in, one out, that is. We’ve been played by the French. What a load of rubbish. And so ever on.
A fairer assessment is that Keir Starmer has made a breakthrough, the first step towards solving an impossible problem. He has secured the agreement with Emmanuel Macron that Rishi Sunak tried for and failed. For the first time, the French government has agreed to take some small-boat migrants back.
