Keir Starmer to meet French president Macron after shaky launch of his immigration policies

Sir Keir Starmer will meet with US President Emmanuel Macron this week, with immigration set to be high on the agenda

this week as he continues to try and establish himself on the world stage ahead of the next general election.Immigration will be high on the agenda at the meeting after Sir Keir last week.

But the Labour Party is facing tough questions about how its new plans to tackle illegal migration would operate after Sir Keir StarmerPart of the clampdown announced by Sir Keir included “discussing” a potential migrant quota with the EU if he wins the next general election. The Conservative Party has claimed that, if the UK were to co-operate in the system, it could see over 100,000 migrants sent to Britain each year in exchange for returning arrivals to other EU countries.

“We will not be part of that [quota scheme]. We are not an EU member and that wasn’t what I was talking about,” he told Sky News.

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