Keir Starmer is dangerously out of touch

The refusal of western elites to admit the failings of multiculturalism, and their ongoing molly-coddling of minority vested interests, is giving birth to white identity politics. That’s the troubling big picture takeout from recent events across the West – the Trump landslide, England’s summer riots, the reluctant dribbling out of statistics showing some foreign national groups are vastly over-represented in criminality (including sex crimes) and now the clamour for a specific public inquiry into rape gangs formed by Pakistani heritage men.

A long-running and concerted attempt by the political class to sustain a framework that depicted minority groups always as victims and never as victimisers has run its course. The reality that some ethnic minority cohorts have been very difficult neighbours for deprived working-class English communities can no long be suppressed.

Any astute ‘progressive’ political leader would sense a major shift in the tectonic plates of public opinion and be adjusting his tone accordingly.