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?

EXCLUSIVE: The Express travelled to migrant camps in Calais to find out what people there about to attempt small boat crossings to the UK really though of the new deal

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reached a “one in, one out” migrant returns trial with French President Emmanuel Macron as they attempt to slash the number of people crossing the English Channel on dangerous small boats.

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of reducing migrants to “commodities to be exchanged” with his new “one in, one out” returns deal with France.Under the deal, for each small boat migrant sent back across the English Channel,

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Well, I for one will not be queueing to see the wretched Bayeux Tapestry. That's where the rot set in if you ask me. A Prime Minister Athelstan would never have let a cheese-eating surrender monkey dictate terms.