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?

Migrants were pictured reaching the shores of Dover on Friday morning, hours after Emmanuel Macron and Sir Keir Starmer signed a new bilateral immigration deal. The UK prime minister and French president agreed a pilot "one in, one out" scheme for migrants during the thrid and final day of the Anglo-French summit in the UK.

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,

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

The new deal will see illegal migrants returned to France, but will also enable individuals to arrive in the UK as asylum seekers in a move to curb small boat crossings

At the end of a three day state visit, the French President and Sir Keir Starmer have announced details of what has been described as a "groundbreaking" plan to deter migrants from crossing the Channel.