How has Italy sought to cut irregular migration and could UK copy the policy?

Tunisia and Libya deals appear to have reduced small-boat crossings under Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government

Keir Starmer has travelled to Rome for bilateral talks about immigration with Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. The British prime minister, under pressure to tackle irregular migration across the Channel from France, wants to examine how Meloni’s hard-right government has cut the number of people arriving in dinghies across the Mediterranean.