LBC callers feel ‘targeted’ by Labour’s immigration rhetoric
Sir Keir Starmer ‘completely rejects” the suggestion he echoed Enoch Powell after warning the UK risks becoming an “island of strangers”, his spokesperson has said.
Addressing the nation on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain risks “becoming an island of strangers” if net migration doesn’t fall.
His comments have been compared to Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” speech in 1968, when he warned immigration made the British public feel as if they had “found themselves made strangers in their own country”.
James O’Brien asks immigrant callers about the impact of the PM’s words.
00:56 – Hassan worries second-generation immigrants like himself won’t be ‘welcome’ in the years to come.
07:01 – Yasser gives his perspective as a first-generation immigrant skilled worker.
11:53 – Jabulani questions Keir Starmer’s remark of a ‘squalid chapter’ of rising inward migration.
16:44 – Pamir came to the UK eight years ago when ‘diversity was a value’.
Credit to : LBC
