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Keir Starmer needs to realise he will never win the argument on immigration

Not a single positive remark about the benefits of migration featured in the Prime Minister’s fifteen-minute address

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Nicola Kelly and The Lead
May 14, 2025
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Keir Starmer making his migration speech on Monday 12 May Pic: UKPrimeMinister/Flickr

Earlier this week Keir Starmer ramped up the anti-immigration rhetoric in a way nobody could have ever predicted a Labour Prime Minister would. We risked, he said, becoming “an island of strangers”: a dog-whistle to the hard-right with echoes of Enoch Powell’s infamous …

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