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Labour's immigration clampdown is a generational betrayal

The government's anti-migrant lurch will damage the country to please a few pensioners with dog-whistle politics

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May 13, 2025
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Keir Starmer making his immigration speech during Monday 12 May Pic: UK10

Labour’s new immigration white paper, unveiled on 12 May, has set hares running.

Keir Starmer’s rhetoric around migration is now unmistakably hardline. Calling the UK’s historic immigration policy a “failed experiment” and warning that we risk becoming “an island of strangers” isn’…

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