Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves the end of a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
SIR KEIR STARMER has stood by his use of Enoch Powell’s language to describe the consequences of immigration as a political storm broke over his “shameful scapegoating.”
MPs queued up to denounce his invocation of Powell’s notorious 1968 “rivers of blood” speech on Monday, and in particular his reference to Britain becoming “an island of strangers.”
Britain’s longest-serving woman MP Labour’s Diane Abbott said Sir Keir’s speech marked “a shameful day in British politics and a shameful day for the Labour Party. It will not end well for either.”
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
