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‘Island of strangers’ speech echoes of past discordant voices over immigration

Keir Starmer’s latest salvo over curbing migration to the UK has resurrected unsavoury ghosts from the past

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Why is Keir Starmer's speech being compared to Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech?

What are the similarities?

Evening Standard

Welsh First Minister says she will not use ‘divisive language’ on immigration

Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan refused to say whether she supported the Prime Minister saying the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’.

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No 10 defends Starmer’s language on immigration likened to Enoch Powell speech

Downing Street says it is wrong to compare PM’s warning about ‘island of strangers’ to 1968 ‘rivers of blood’ speech

The Guardian - UK

Starmer doubles down on ‘island of strangers’ immigration row amid growing Labour revolt

Downing Street has rejected comparisons to former right-wing Tory MP Enoch Powell and insisted the prime minister will ‘not shy away’ from the issue of immigration as Tory MP Robert Jenrick and Viktor Orban’s government praised his language

The Independent UK

Starmer ‘completely rejects’ claims he echoed Enoch Powell in migration speech

The Prime Minister warned the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’ if migration controls were not tightened.

Evening Standard

UK PM Starmer accused of echoing far-right amid immigration overhaul

The UK leader was criticised for warning that the country could become an "island of strangers". Some of his own MPs say these words echoed a phrase in Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech in 1968.

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Starmer ‘completely rejects’ suggestion he echoed Enoch Powell in immigration speech, No 10 says – as it happened

PM stands by his claim the UK risks becoming an ‘island of strangers’, Downing Street says

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Robert Jenrick claims UK ‘already island of strangers’ in rare support for Starmer

Sir Keir found himself in unusual political company as the former Tory immigration minister – who has typically been at loggerheads with the Labour leader on migration – defended the PM’s remarks

The Independent UK

Starmer’s migration speech ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s, says Yvette Cooper

Home secretary says PM talked about strength in diversity, after criticism from MPs over ‘island of strangers’ rhetoric

The Guardian - UK

Cooper defends Starmer as migration speech likened to ‘rivers of blood’ language

The Home Secretary insisted the tone of the Prime Minister’s migration plan was ‘completely different’ from Enoch Powell’s 1968 anti-migration speech.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer hit by growing backlash for 'island of strangers' warning on immigration to Britain

London MPs have heavily criticised the Prime Minister over his language

Evening Standard

Despair at Starmer’s ‘divisive’ language as he clamps down on immigration

Backbench Labour MPs, unions and charities criticise the PM, who is urged to apologise for his ‘dangerous’ comments

The Independent UK

Starmer accused of echoing far right with ‘island of strangers’ speech

Prime minister’s immigration speech was likened by MPs to rhetoric of Enoch Powell

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PM risks ‘legitimising far-right violence’ with ‘island of strangers’ claim – MP

Sir Keir Starmer faced a backlash in the Commons for his comments linked to better integration in the UK.

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'Echoes of Powell': Care sector boss rips into Keir Starmer's immigration plans

The language Keir Starmer has used to describe migrant workers has “echoes of Enoch Powell at his worst” and will make it harder for the care…

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Five things you didn’t know about Black British cultural history

From northern soul to rugby league beef, here’s what I learned while writing We Were There

The Guardian - UK

Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politicians

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Can a brown Hindu be English? Most Britons say yes. Why do so many on the right say no?

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated

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Former Tory minister in stark racism warning to party on Holocaust Memorial Day

A FORMER Tory minister has warned the Conservative Party it will never get back into power if it panders "to the likes of Nigel Farage".

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama: ‘Britain is a much more tolerant place now. I’m Mr Sunshine on this’

The historian on taking the social pulse of the nation in his new TV series, why we’re such word addicts, and his fear that the needle in the US is moving towards red

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The Rev Donald Reeves obituary

Progressive Anglican clergyman radicalised by an urban ministry social project in Chicago

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Nadia Cattouse obituary

Actor who appeared in groundbreaking postwar stage and TV productions and was a popular singer during the 60s folk revival

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Sadiq Khan's new policing deputy apologises for calling Susan Hall a 'racist' and 'climate change-denier'

Ms Hall, who in 2019 retweeted a post calling Mr Khan the ‘nipple height mayor of Londonistan’, said it was ‘abhorrent’ to have been called racist

The Guardian - UK

Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help

Rabid Trussonomics or naked nativism? With the race down to four runners, here’s my guide to a party reeling in two directions, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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