It boils down to this - how do Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron make the case for what they see as the virtues of patience, nuance, subtleties and trade-offs in an era of growing impatience at the perceived repeated failures of those in high office?

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced tougher migration controls on Thursday, ending a state visit with deals on defence, nuclear cooperation and plans to support Ukraine in case of a ceasefire.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reached a “one in, one out” migrant returns trial with French President Emmanuel Macron as they attempt to slash the number of people crossing the English Channel on dangerous small boats.

Macron and Starmer hold press conference after intense talks on new migration deal - French president to end three-day state visit with announcement on plan to tackle illegal crossings

Well, I for one will not be queueing to see the wretched Bayeux Tapestry. That's where the rot set in if you ask me. A Prime Minister Athelstan would never have let a cheese-eating surrender monkey dictate terms.

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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has condemned the Government's new migrant returns deal with France as "another hopeless gimmick" that will fail to deter Channel crossings. Speaking on GB News, Philp criticised the pilot scheme announced by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron,

Keir Starmer's "one in, one out" plan to end the small boats crisis has been branded a failure by the officials employed to carry it out. Speaking today as small-boat migrants continued to pour into Dover,