Sure, here is a more detailed paraphrase of the text:Starmer is very interested in Italy's plan to offshore asylum applications in Albania, says Meloni.

Her government has a plan for illegal migration, and the UK may be able to extend the work done by law enforcement agencies.

There may be scope for making sure their legislation is 'in greater harmony' in the future, she says.

On Albania, she says Starmer was 'very interested' in the Italian plan to process asylum applications offshore in Albania.

She has seen that the prime minister was very interested in what they are doing, but he should be the one to speak about this.

The model that the Italian government has conceived focuses on processing asylum applications for those immigrants who disembark within Italian or EU legislation in a foreign country.

This was a model that was never experimented with before.

If it works, as she hopes it will, this can become a new way to deal with migration flow.

They have been working on this project rigorously.

From what she understands, it will take a few weeks before it is perfect.

It would have been better if it had started earlier.

She knows that the world is watching them.

Therefore, she thinks they have to do this in the best possible way.

And if they need a few extra days, as she was OK with this a few weeks ago, she will be OK with this now as well.

But they are talking about a few weeks.

As reports, while the prime minister agreed with Meloni, stressing how important their deep relationship was, Starmer indicated that he was more interested in Italy's strategy stopping migrants from reaching the country than its Albania deal, which Meloni said is a few weeks away from completion.

The pair, however, put migration at the top of their discussions, which also included topics around economic growth on Tuesday, before they were photographed joking and smiling through the gardens of the Villa Doria Pamphilj in Rome.

The millions of pounds the UK will send to Italy will contribute to the Rome process, which is the Italian government's project to tackle the root causes of irregular migration.

In an interview before he wraps up the Lib Dem conference with his big speech tomorrow, Davey also said he wanted his party to be a better opposition to Labour than the Tories are.

The Liberal Democrats voted for an updated version of their PR/electoral reform policy at the conference this morning.

There is a summary, and the full motion that was approved is.

Liberal Democrats have a comprehensive plan to build a better politics, starting with a fair voting system so no one's vote is wasted: Give in the first election after their 16th birthday, for UK general elections and referendums, and local elections in England.

There is a full list of the conference motions passed today on the feed on X.

Wordings for the motions are.

The Lib Dem leader has said that he does not want parliament to rush into taking a decision on assisted dying.

Yesterday claimed that Keir Starmer wants a vote on a private member’s bill to allow assisted dying before Christmas.

But, in an interview with Sky News, Davey said that MPs should take their time and have a 'more considered' debate.

And he explained why, for personal reasons, he was skeptical about the case for changing the law.

He said: This is a vote that doesn’t go along party lines.

I know the people in my party would be very much in favor of it.

I have to say personally, I have some concerns.

When it came to parliament, quite a long time ago, I went against proceeding with assisted dying and my concerns are both quite personal.

I cared for my mother as a teenager when she was dying of bone cancer.

And I saw someone with a very painful disease.

And by nursing, given palliative care, she was able to enjoy life and be with us, that’s what she wanted to be.

Now I accept every case might be different.

But here’s my other concern, which I want to listen to the debate about, is the pressure it could put on elderly people.

Not pressure coming from necessarily from the relatives, but from them inside internally, which they may not express.

I think a situation where healthy people might think they are a burden and then proceed with this is a huge worry and I think we should focus on that.

In 2015 MPs voted overwhelmingly against changing the law to allow assisted dying.

But the composition of parliament, and social attitudes, have changed since then, and it is thought there would now be a majority in favor.

Starmer has said that MPs should have a free vote on the issue, and that he personally would be in favor of an assisted dying law, subject to certain safeguards.

He has rejected suggestions that questions around whether he failed to declare donations of clothes for his wife Victoria, could have been avoided if the government had an anti-corruption adviser.

There’s a massive difference between declarations and corruption.

Declarations is about declaring properly so you and everybody else can see properly made declarations.

He has told the BBC that he wants the to be a better opposition to Labour than the Conservatives are.

In an interview with Chris Mason, he explained: There is no doubt that if [Labour] don’t listen to criticism, they can push things through, but that would make a very bad government.

What our democracy needs is good opposition.

So we can check the government, show where making mistakes, scrutinise them properly.

And what I want for the Liberal Democrats in this parliament is to be the best opposition.

I think we can be a much better opposition [than] the Conservatives, who are pretty divided, whose credibility on health and care is shot through-they’ve got none at all.

Frankly, their position and their record on the economy means they have no credibility on the economy either.

So this country, our parliament, needs a party that has credibility on the economy, credibility on health and care.

We’re that party and with 72 MPs, we will get our voice heard.

The Lib Dem leader has recorded a series of broadcast interviews which are all embargoed until about now.

None of them are likely to be as wild as this one, with from Radio 5 Live, who interviewed Davey on a rollercoaster as a tribute to his trademark, stunt-orientated campaigning.

Can Ed Davey name as many of his 72 MPs as possible while on a rollercoaster with Matt Chorley? ? Check this ride out ? Listen to weekdays 2-4 on BBC Sounds ?️The Northern Ireland secretary has blamed the Tories for the fact that the government decided to abandon plans to redevelop the derelict Casement Park stadium in Belfast so that it could be used as a venue for Euro 2028 matches.

The announcement, which was particularly disappointing to nationalists, was This is a major international football tournament and we can’t be in the position where the country says we are going to build that stadium and then not be able to deliver it.

The risk was too great and reluctantly we came to the conclusion that the project could not go ahead.

Where does the blame lie? Well, I would point out that in the 18 months between the awarding of the tournament to the UK and Ireland and July 4, the day of the general election, the last government talked a lot, did absolutely nothing to progress the project at all, which is why we were left with what turned out to be an impossible situation.

I thought it was right, Lisa Nandy the culture secretary thought it was right, that we let people know as swiftly as possible once the decision had been made because we have now got to take stock about how to take forward the rebuilding of Casement, albeit in a very different form.

The immigration lawyer has written a good post about what the UK can learn from how Italy deals with irregular migration.

His conclusion? Almost nothing.

Italy has a highly asymmetric relationship with both Libya and Albania.

Italy is able to pay both of them lots of money and both states are very happy to accept that money.

By entering into an arrangement with them, Italy also lends them political and diplomatic credibility.

The UK does not have a highly asymmetric relationship with France or the EU.

Or, rather, it’s not asymmetric in the direction that the UK might like.

Neither France nor the EU want to be in receipt of migrants deported from the UK.

The UK cannot leverage its relationship with either to start conducting pullback operations.

Nor are either in need of political or diplomatic credibility lent by the UK.

And it is impossible to intercept small boats in the channel and tow them somewhere else.

Removing people who have already arrived means detaining them then forcing them onto a plane.

That’s really hard and really expensive.

So the chances of the UK learning useful lessons on migration management from Italy look like zero.

The headlines fall into the same trap as the last government: creating expectations that it has no means to meet.

The headlines might look good to some in the short term but it is very, very bad politics in the long run.

Failure to deliver is absolutely not how Keir Starmer’s government wants to be perceived.

The Conservative party has revived its attack on Keir Starmer over accepting clothes donations from Lord Alli, a Labour donor.

In a statement issued by CCHQ, before Starmer’s press conference in Rome, the shadow science secretary said: It beggars belief that the prime minister thinks it’s acceptable that pensioners on £13,000 a year can afford to heat their home when he earns 12 times that but apparently can’t afford to clothe himself or his wife.

While his top team want a taxpayer-funded clothes budget to look sharp, people across the country are forced to make tough choices in the face of Labour’s damaging decisions.

CCHQ also said that a Conservative MP it did not name has written to the parliamentary commissioner for standards calling for an investigation into Starmer and the “scandal” that a gift of clothes for his wife was not initially disclosed in the register.

The letter says: “There must be a full