The initiative triggers internal criticism within the Labour Party, where there are questions about whether the prime minister "is seeking to receive lessons from a neo-fascist government". The 'prime minister' Keir Starmer is visiting Rome to receive first-hand "lessons" from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on how to combat and control irregular immigration.

Keir Starmer said he’s looking to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for lessons on tackling so-called irregular migration, as Britain’s prime minister grapples with an issue fueling a rise in Western democracies of right-wing parties that are not natural allies of his center-left Labour government.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Monday. The center-left British leader says he wants to learn how her right-wing government has achieved “dramatic declines” in the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores by boat.