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?

The French issued a slick PR video last week in the run-up to the Starmer Macron cobblers we’ve seen this week. A policeman took out a knife and popped a dinghy in about two feet of water. Wet feet for the poor buggers aboard but that is one boat we can be sure will not be arriving in the UK.

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,

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are finalising a “one in, one out” scheme to curb crossings of refugees and migrants in small boats across the English Channel.

Macron and Starmer pathetically shaking their slimy little hands to seal the new (and totally useless) One in, One out deal while at precisely the same time, hundreds more illegal migrants hit our shores.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host French President Emmanuel Macron for lunch at Downing Street on the second day of a state visit on Wednesday, with the pair poised to discuss subjects like immigration and Ukraine.

President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit to Britain, which begins Tuesday, will be heavy on pageantry. But both he and Prime Minister Keir Starmer hope for practical results.

Macron’s three-day visit, at the invitation of King Charles III, is the first state visit to the UK by a European Union head of state since Brexit.