LISTEN: Heidi Alexander Refuses to Say If Starmer Will Secure French Migrant Deal This Week

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was wheeled out for the media round ahead of President Macron’s state visit today, as Starmer desperately tries to secure a “one in, one out” asylum deal with the French. A big policy Labour has been scrambling to patch together in recent months…

As Guido first revealed, Starmer had hoped to agree the deal last Thursday as a rabbit to mark his one-year anniversary and there was still an expectation of a deal up to the last minute.[…] Read the rest