It boils down to this - how do Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron make the case for what they see as the virtues of patience, nuance, subtleties and trade-offs in an era of growing impatience at the perceived repeated failures of those in high office?

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reached a “one in, one out” migrant returns trial with French President Emmanuel Macron as they attempt to slash the number of people crossing the English Channel on dangerous small boats.

French president Emmanuel Macron blamed Brexit for a rise in small boats crossing the Channel, as he and Sir Keir Starmer announced a new "one in, one out" deal to return migrants. Highlighting how the UK had no migration deal with the EU after Brexit,

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Deal with Macron to end small boat crossings won't work, according to the officials charged with implementing it

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has condemned the Government's new migrant returns deal with France as "another hopeless gimmick" that will fail to deter Channel crossings. Speaking on GB News, Philp criticised the pilot scheme announced by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron,

As the UK and France plan to start sending some arrivals back, in exchange for other asylum seekers, the BBC sees 220 migrants arrive in Dover.