{"id":431248,"date":"2025-09-17T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431248\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:24:11","slug":"turbulence-for-keir-starmers-migration-deal-with-france-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431248\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbulence for Keir Starmer\u2019s migration deal with France \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a major blow for Starmer, who is under huge pressure to show results on tackling small boats after a summer of localized anti-migrant protests.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK party, which is leading Labour by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 points<\/a> in opinion polls, is amping up the pressure on the British prime minister over his asylum policy at a time when Starmer\u2019s authority with his own party has been dented by the departure of three of his top team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The political peril has not gone unnoticed in government. The court decision has gone down like a \u201cbucket of sick,\u201d one minister said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starmer is not the first U.K. prime minister whose efforts to deter asylum-seekers arriving on small boats across the English Channel have been thwarted by the courts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His Conservative predecessor Rishi Sunak, who staked his political career on a promise to \u201cStop the Boats,\u201d was blocked from sending some people seeking asylum to Rwanda by the U.K. Supreme Court, which declared it was not a safe country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to keep his deterrent policy alive, Sunak controversially legislated to declare Rwanda a safe country, and signed a new treaty with the East African nation \u2014 but the scheme was canceled by Starmer who claimed it was an expensive \u201cgimmick.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is a major blow for Starmer, who is under huge pressure to show results on tackling small&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5108,748,47001,30,33,28284,34,393,36,4884,40,807,105581,384,1144,5112,2945,712,60422,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-431248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asylum","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chris-philp","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-elections","14":"tag-elections-in-europe","15":"tag-emmanuel-macron","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-immigration","20":"tag-keir-starmer","21":"tag-liz-kendall","22":"tag-nigel-farage","23":"tag-northern-ireland","24":"tag-rishi-sunak","25":"tag-rwanda","26":"tag-scotland","27":"tag-shabana-mahmood","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115219861492732233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}