Keir Starmer is just the latest in a long line of prime ministers who says that immigration has been far too high in the past and needs to be greatly reduced.
He berates Tory leader Kemi Badenoch constantly on this point, pledging to get a grip on migration volumes and accusing the Conservatives of having presided over a ‘reckless, one nation experiment in open borders.’
It’s a wounding blow to which Badenoch is yet to devise an effective answer. And let’s face it, being outflanked on migration scepticism by Starmer, a man who once declared that ‘a racist undercurrent… permeates all immigration law’, ought to hurt.
Yet now Starmer himself appears destined to fall victim to what we might call the ‘Boris Fallacy’ on immigration, in honour of the disastrous blond bombshell.
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