Readers Letters: Labour Has Fast Lost Any Credibility It Had After Starmer's Migration Speech

Under pressure from the extreme right-wing parties, several European governments are launching immigration offensives, and the European Commission would like to coordinate them.

Readers Letters: Labour has fast lost any credibility it had after Starmer's migration speech

I cannot quite remember such a deep disillusionment with politics, in which the gulf is deepening between Scotland and the rest of the UK. Joyce McMillan (Perspective, May 16) is right to suggest that the time is fast approaching for a second independence referendum, perhaps before the end of the decade. We can’t wait for a generation to pass.

UK faith leaders urge PM to tone down migration rhetoric

UK religious leaders on Friday called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to tone down his language about migration, after comparisons were made to an inflammatory speech in the 1960s. Labour leader Starmer this week announced tougher new policies to tackle high levels of migration, in an attempt to stem a growing loss of support to the hard right. In a speech, he said the UK risked becoming "an island of strangers", prompting comparisons to similar …

UK Religious Leaders Urge PM Starmer to Rethink Rhetoric on Migration

LONDON — Prominent religious leaders across the UK have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, urging him to reconsider his rhetoric on migration amid growing concerns that his recent remarks risk stoking division and public anxiety. The intervention comes after Starmer announced a series of tougher immigration policies this week in a bid to curb rising […] The post UK Religious Leaders Urge PM Starmer to Rethink Rhetoric on Migration appeared …

London: British religious leaders called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday to tone down his rhetoric on migrants, following a speech in which he suggested the UK risked becoming an “island of foreigners.” Anglican bishops and Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religious leaders said in a joint letter to Starmer published on Friday: “As religious leaders, we write to you to ask you to reconsider the rhetoric […]

Bishops join other faith leaders in urging Prime Minister to ‘reconsider’ migration rhetoric

FIFTEEN bishops have joined Jewish, Muslim and other Christian leaders in calling on the Prime Minister to reconsider his words on migration. At the launch of the Immigration White Paper on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer warned that the UK risked “becom...