Keir Starmer faced humiliation over his latest attempt at a migrant crackdown yesterday.
In a surprise move, the Prime Minister used a trip to Albania to unveil plans to create Rwanda-style centres abroad to house failed asylum seekers from the UK.
But the initiative imploded on live TV just an hour later when his host, Albanian PM Edi Rama, ruled out ever taking part in the scheme.
The plan is a major U-turn for Sir Keir, who branded the previous government's Rwanda deportation scheme a gimmick and scrapped it within days of taking office.
Towering over Sir Keir at a press conference in the capital Tirana, 6ft 7in Mr Rama said his country had no interest in expanding a similar deal it had struck with Italy.