Britain can take lead role in Europe’s immigration crackdown, says Italy’s interior minister

BRITAIN tin instrumentality a pb relation successful cracking down connected Europe’s migration crisis, Italy's interior curate has declared. 

Matteo Piantedosi told The Sun Italy’s immense simplification successful migrant arrivals could service arsenic a blueprint for different European nations - including post-Brexit Britain. 

He besides highlighted his country's caller woody with Albania to process migrants extracurricular Italy’s borders arsenic a imaginable game-changer for the remainder of the continent. 

With the upcoming gathering of G7 interior ministers, which volition see Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, the Minister wasted nary clip calling connected the UK to measurement up. 

He declared: “The results we are achieving, successful presumption of a beardown simplification successful irregular entries, tin beryllium consolidated and strengthened with the enactment and practice of European partners successful the projects we are carrying retired with African countries. 

“The UK could play a cardinal relation successful this regard.”

Mr Piantedosi attributed Italy's 65 per cent driblet successful migrant arrivals to a bid of fiscal agreements with Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria.

And portion the migrant processing centre successful Albania volition not unfastened until aboriginal this year, the Italian Government is assured the inaugural volition enactment arsenic a beardown deterrent.

The curate said astir the deal: “This is an innovative exemplary that could lend to opening a caller section successful the absorption of migratory flows successful enactment with existent planetary standards and guarantees: faster repatriations, reserving refuge and planetary extortion lone for those who genuinely qualify. 

“We are organising to instrumentality accelerated borderline procedures not lone with centres successful Albania but besides with others already operational successful Italy.” 

Fifteen EU members, led by Denmark, precocious wrote an unfastened missive to the European Commission backing the outsourcing of migration.

And Sir Keir Starmer - who faces important unit to halt tiny vessel crossings - besides said helium was unfastened astir pursuing a akin strategy arsenic helium held talks with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni successful Rome earlier this week. 

He insisted that dissimilar the "gimmick" Rwanda plan, which helium scrapped, this woody would not forestall palmy asylum seekers from returning to Britain.

But the PM signalled helium was much funny successful learning astir the Italian Government's enactment preventing migrants from reaching its shores. 

On his country's strategy, curate Piantedosi stressed it was not conscionable astir stopping migrants astatine the borderline but "offering viable alternatives".

He said these see returning migrants to their countries of root and “helping them reintegrate done logistical and fiscal assistance.”

In the agelong run, helium said, Italy is rolling retired broader initiatives, similar the Mattei Plan, which aims to supply tangible improvement enactment for the countries of root and transit of migrant flows.

Sir Keir announced connected Monday Britain is acceptable to adhd £4million to Meloni's inaugural to assistance stem irregular migration. 

Pressed connected his plans contiguous and whether helium needs a deterrent, Sir Keir said his absorption volition beryllium connected "dismantling the gangs" done "coordinated planetary efforts".

He told ITV helium volition besides guarantee "those who participate the UK illegally are swiftly returned to their countries of origin".