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‘Island of strangers’ speech echoes of past discordant voices over immigration
Keir Starmer’s latest salvo over curbing migration to the UK has resurrected unsavoury ghosts from the pastInternal Labour rows about how the party speaks about immigration are, of course, nothing new. Ahead of the 2015 election, a campaigning red mug with the slogan “Controls on immigration”, was condemned by veteran MP Diane Abbott as “shameful”.This week, similar criticism has greeted a government paper on reducing net migration numbers – less about the proposed policies than the language used by Keir Starmer to introduce them. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer’s latest salvo over curbing migration to the UK has resurrected unsavoury ghosts from the past
Internal Labour rows about how the party speaks about immigration are, of course, nothing new. Ahead of the 2015 election, a campaigning red mug with the slogan “Controls on immigration”, was condemned by veteran MP Diane Abbott as “shameful”.
This week, similar criticism has greeted a government paper on reducing net migration numbers – less about the proposed policies than the language used by Keir Starmer to introduce them. Continue reading...
