Starmer Warns Mass Migration Could Turn Britain into “Island of Strangers”
- UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a new immigration policy overhaul on Monday aiming to reduce legal migration and control the system.
- The announcement followed Reform UK's local election victories and growing public concern over record net migration reaching 728,000 by June 2024.
- Starmer's plan includes ending the social care visa, raising English language requirements, and cracking down on people smuggling amid mixed reactions from politicians.
- Starmer warned the UK risks becoming an 'island of strangers' without fair immigration rules, a phrase critics linked to Enoch Powell's 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
- The policy shift sparked debate about social cohesion and migration management, while Reform UK's gains suggest immigration remains a key political issue.
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The long arm of Reform
City slicker Nigel Farage making the political weather after tribute act Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech means it’s beginning to feel in Westminster as if Reform packs not five but 50 or even 500 MPs, groaned a despairing Labour newbie. The hard-right grouplet is behaving like that too. Mel Stride was put up by the Conservatives to denounce as “economically illiterate” a Reform financial wish list. The shadow chancellor is known as “…
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