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?

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.

Amid continuing tensions among the European powers over how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s zig-zagging policy towards NATO and the Ukraine war, the French president and British prime minister made their latest effort to present an Anglo-French axis.

Macron and Starmer pathetically shaking their slimy little hands to seal the new (and totally useless) One in, One out deal while at precisely the same time, hundreds more illegal migrants hit our shores.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are finalising a “one in, one out” scheme to curb crossings of refugees and migrants in small boats across the English Channel.

By Elizabeth Piper and Elizabeth Pineau LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will hope to win agreement from President Emmanuel Macron on tougher measures to control migration on Thursday,

French president leaves No 10 after crunch migration talks with Starmer - French president visits Downing Street as UK pushes France to do more to stop migrant crossings

President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Britain, which begins Tuesday, will be heavy on pageantry. But both he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer hope for practical results.