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.

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.

The UK prime minister was speaking at a news conference, alongside his Italian counterpart, following talks in Rome.