LEFT-WING MPs and campaigners hit back at the prime minister’s “laughable” Easter message yesterday demanding he “take a look in the mirror” and reckon with the consequences of his policies.

They pointed out the hypocrisy of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech which called Britain to choose “community over division.”

In his Easter address, he said: “In times when some seek to divide, the government is committed to working across faiths and differences to build a country that is more resilient, inclusive and connected.”

But former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn recalled that the PM himself had recently used racist rhetoric himself and that his government has overseen an attack on migrants and asylum-seekers.

Mr Corbyn told the Morning Star: “If he was serious, he would stop his attacks on migrants, end his government’s complicity in genocide, and tackle the root cause of problems in our society: a grotesquely unequal economy that concentrates wealth in the hands of the few.

“It was the prime minister who spoke of an island of strangers — and it was his government that took away rights from migrants and refugees.

“The prime minister speaks of division. He should look in the mirror, and take some responsibility for the racism and fear he has stoked with his words and actions.”

MP Diane Abbott agreed that it is Sir Keir’s own policies which are “divisive.”

“It is true that many politicians seek to divide us,” she told the Star. “But a Prime Minister who has supported genocide in Gaza and the illegal war on Iran, imposes austerity on workers, the poor and disabled people and pursues completely reactionary immigration policies is in no position to preach to us on unity.”

Julia Bard of the Jewish Socialists’ Group said that the prime minister’s words regarding “conflicts abroad, pressures at home, and uncertainty about the future” were uttered as though they were not the outcome of “his government’s divisive policies.”

His claim to stand for unity was “laughable,” she said, “after targeting migrants and refugees, cutting vital public services, facilitating genocide and illegal wars, attacking our right to protest and undermining our unions.

“As Jewish socialists, we have always known that our future rests on foundations of social justice, solidarity and mutual support.”

She added that he failed to mention Passover, when the Jewish community commemorates its “liberation from slavery and [makes] connections with those still struggling for freedom today.”