The search for a solution to ever rising illegal migration took the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to Rome today for talks with her Italian counterpart.
She still wouldn’t be drawn on when numbers arriving here might start to go down, but was keen to point out that almost 13,500 foreign nationals had been returned to their home countries since Labour came to power.
The government was also forced to deal with questions about the Chinese spy who had gained access to Prince Andrew and it seems many senior politicians.