British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will announce tougher migration controls on Thursday, capping a state visit when they agreed to deeper defence and nuclear cooperation in a more volatile world.

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.

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.

German 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.

Sir 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,

Starmer says ‘one in, one out’ deal with Macron to stop migrant boat crossings will start within weeks: Latest - France’s president ends three-day state visit to UK with announcement on plan to tackle

French President Emmanuel Macron’s three-day state visit to the United Kingdom has moved from the genteel royal pomp and ceremony to the harder edges of the political realm as his hosts are expected to press for new measures to curb undocumented immigration in crunch talks.

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.

Emmanuel Macron has opened the door to Britain rejoining the EU just hours after Reform UK Nigel Farage warned Keir Starmer against trusting the "arrogant anti-Brexit President". The French President,

French 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.