Starmer Calls on Europe’s Leaders to Address Migration ‘Crisis’ at European Summit

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called on Europe’s leaders to address the illegal migration “crisis” at a summit in Oxfordshire on Thursday. Sir Keir said he hoped the European Political Community (EPC) summit would provide an opportunity to “reset” Britain’s relationship with its continental neighbours in the wake of Brexit. The EPC was the brainchild of French President Emmanuel Macron and brings together 20 non-EU nations, including the UK, as well as the 27 EU countries. Opening the summit at Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill’s birthplace, he also reiterated Labour’s support for the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In the last few years of Conservative rule in the UK, the party had repeatedly flirted with pulling out of the agreement, which was drafted and came into force during the early 1950s....