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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox and Millie Cooke

HISTORICAL FACTS: Starmer overhauls home office to take on farage over migration - Caught on Camera

Sir Keir Starmer has orchestrated a ministerial clearout of the Home Office after a failure to tackle illegal migration and rows over grooming gangs and policing badly damaged Labour in the polls.

With panic rising over Reform’s 10-point lead in the polls and Nigel Farage continuing to capitalise on a failure to stop the small boats amid protests outside migrant hotels, Sir Keir appears to have lost patience with the highly vaunted team he installed in July last year.

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