French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to host the leader of the UK’s opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, at Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday.
The meeting comes as Starmer — increasingly confident that he can oust the ruling Conservatives and bring Labour back into government for the first time in well over a decade — has been making a number of appearances on the world stage.
Little information has been given about the contents of Tuesday’s talks in Paris, but Starmer recently told The Financial Times in an interview that he would seek closer ties with the European Union while ruling out any attempt to rejoin the bloc, if he were to win.
Starmer has been trying to prove his worth as an international statesman, visiting Europol in The Hague last week and appearing with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and former British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Canadian city of Montreal.
