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Keir Starmer took a not-so-subtle dig at Nigel Farage as he and Emmanuel Macron announced a 'groundbreaking' migrant return deal.
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.
It is unlikely that Sir Keir Starmer ’s government, desperate as it is to court Muslim groups after being accused of complicity in Gaza’s ‘genocide’, will arrive at any such moral clarity. Indeed, there are fears that the government may soon adopt a definition of Islamophobia which stifles criticism of Islam as a faith and thus has a chilling effect on free speech.
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Agence France-Presse on MSNMacron, Starmer talk Channel migration as UK visit gets politicalFrench President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to Britain turned to politics Wednesday as London was expected to press Paris for new measures to curb undocumented immigration.The ever-rising number of migrants arriving on England's southern coast by small boat from northern France has become a major political headache for Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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DPA International on MSNGermany's Merz to visit London next week to sign treaty of friendshipGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz is to make his inaugural visit to London on Thursday, with a German-British treaty of friendship expected to be signed. Government spokesman Steffen Meyer said in Berlin on Friday that the visit is intended to deepen the close ties between the two countries.
UK's prime minister Sir Keir Starmer may soon have to leave his position as he is under pressure from within his own party and even many poll data indicating that he should be replaced as the Labour Party leader,
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GB News on MSNKeir Starmer set to meet Donald Trump in just days amid Scotland visitSir Keir Starmer has accepted an invitation to visit President Donald Trump during his expected trip to Scotland this month. Details, including a specific date, were still being finalised, said the source,
Prime minister Keir Starmer and London mayor Sadiq Khan laid wreaths at the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park today (7 July), in a service commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 2005 London terrorist attacks that killed 52 people.