It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired
Exclusive: the first survey before and after the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support.
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From the archive: Welcome to Fifties Britain
September 1955: The argument for British compassion towards Windrush immigrants.
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The age of deportation
The haven that Britain once was is being dismantled. In its place a fortress rises.
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The left’s immigration failure
In Labour’s absence, Nigel Farage is stepping into the void.
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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How the small boats crisis convulsed Britain
With talk of mass deportations entering our politics, the victims of a broken system are being forgotten.
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Nigel Farage’s hollow, dangerous concern for women
Reform’s radical plans for mass deportations won’t make anyone safer.
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The Epping ruling deepens Labour’s immigration nightmare
MPs blame a “vacuum of leadership” for handing Nigel Farage a political victory over asylum hotels.
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Labour’s path out of its immigration nightmare
Nigel Farage is preparing for a summer offensive on borders and security.
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The problem with Robert Jenrick’s migrant sex crime claims
The shadow justice secretary is spouting statistics that simply don’t add up.
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How anti-migrant politics came for Deliveroo
Clashes with couriers outside an asylum hotel protest expose a dilemma – for government and protesters alike.
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The cost of apathy in England’s mining towns
Protesters that once fought deindustrialisation have turned instead on immigration.
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Who is an acceptable migrant?
Those arriving in Britain are not so easily divided into categories of “deserving” and “undeserving”.
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Who loves the sun?
Also this week: Sweet summer reading and why we need immigrants.
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Why is Boris Johnson so scared of Emmanuel Macron?
Brexiteers cannot get a lurid fantasy version of the French president out of their heads.
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Immigrants did not cause Britain’s social housing shortage
The idea that British nationals are passed over for social housing is a myth that refuses to die.
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Keir Starmer’s “Island of strangers” speech was right
The Prime Minister may regret his words but some of us live in the reality he described.
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Should Labour copy the Danish Social Democrats on migration?
The government must be careful about borrowing from Denmark’s SDP.
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Ireland’s anti-immigrant rage will not go away
The protests in Ballymena could foreshadow a summer of serious unrest.
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Will the net migration figures save Labour at the polls?
The numbers are still too high to satisfy the median British voter.
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