U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer met Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Monday. The center-left British leader says he wants to learn how her right-wing government has achieved “dramatic declines” in the number of migrants reaching Italy’s shores by boat.

Hewitt, a police chief with 30 years of experience in national security and tackling serious crime also co-ordinated police enforcement of Britain’s Covid response. He will travel to Rome with Starmer, who will hold talks with Meloni on migration as part of his wider attempt to improve relations with EU capitals.

Keir Starmer said he’s looking to his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for lessons on tackling so-called irregular migration, as Britain’s prime minister grapples with an issue fueling a rise in Western democracies of right-wing parties that are not natural allies of his center-left Labour government.