The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said at a news conference in Rome on Monday that they would cooperate on migration and security. Starmer"s meeting with Meloni, after trips to Berlin, Paris and Dublin since he won the UK general election in July, was part of his attempt to improve ties with the EU, in part to increase coordination on tackling migration. Starmer has scrapped the previous government"s contentious plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, but has not altogether ruled out processing asylum claims offshore