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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The public is right to care about small boat crossings
The halving of immigration this week can’t change the reality of the asylum system.
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Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers”
What was the Prime Minister really saying about immigrants and immigration?
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Scotland has not turned against immigration
Scottish Labour could only flinch at Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech.
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How Labour learned to love immigration control
Keir Starmer’s warning of “an island of strangers” owes less to Enoch Powell than it does to Robert Putnam.
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Labour’s immigration rhetoric has outflanked the Tories
Kemi Badenoch has no response – and her MPs are restless.
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Yvette Cooper’s quiet victory on immigration
The approach championed by the Home Secretary for over a decade has become the government’s
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Cosplaying Reform will doom Labour
But the party has to fight Farage on his turf.
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Britain’s small boats obsession
Overcrowded dinghies used for desperate, dangerous crossings have become totemic in our toxic immigration conversation.
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Keir Starmer’s hollow state
Labour’s planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel…
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The AfD doesn’t need to win
The far-right party is already reshaping Germany.
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The British public was wise to Labour’s deportation videos
Also this week: Rupert Murdoch charms the White House, while the Maga-sphere’s assaults on US media intensify.
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The “Boriswave” problem
Why higher immigration is at the heart of the crisis facing Kemi Badenoch.
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Why the Brexit debate will never die
Was it ever possible for the promised results to be delivered?
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Has Rachel Reeves given in to the non-doms?
Or is it just another win for the attention economy?
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PMQs review: Badenoch falls into Reform’s trap
The Tory leader’s attacks on Labour’s immigration plan did more for Nigel Farage than the Conservative Party.
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The left is waking up to the immigration crisis
Keir Starmer’s relaunch speech was a belated recognition of a collective political madness.
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