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Labour civil war erupts as Keir Starmer sparks fury with migration plans
Express Newspapers ^ | Tue, May 13, 2025 | Michael Knowles

Posted on 05/13/2025 3:13:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Labour’s immigration civil war intensified on Tuesday as Sir Sadiq Khan refused to back Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” warning.

The Prime Minister admitted the UK is facing a crisis because integration has failed.

Jake Richards, one of the leading MPs in the Red Wall group of MPs, claimed the PM was “absolutely right”, warning “millions of people across the country have similar concerns.”

But some backbench MPs slammed the “island of strangers” comment, claiming it echoed Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech.

Sarah Owen, the Labour chair of the women and equalities committee, who is of Malaysian-Chinese heritage, said: “Chasing the tail of the right risks taking our country down a very dark path.”

And speaking to LBC, Sir Sadiq Khan said he would not have used the phrase "island of strangers".

The Mayor of London said: "The sort of language I use is different to the language used by others. That's not the sort of words I would use."

He added that he thought Sir Keir Starmer was referring to "promises made by Brexiteers" and recent high levels of migration, and not "that contribution we make to this multicultural capital city and country."

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: returnthesausages

1 posted on 05/13/2025 3:13:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

President Trump has certainl put a crimp in the globalists’ totalitarian genocidal plans.

Now they have to pretend they aren’t who they are.


2 posted on 05/13/2025 3:22:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

COMPASSION HAS MORPHED INTO CORRUPTION & LACK OF SAFETY


3 posted on 05/13/2025 3:22:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Labour civil war erupts as Keir Starmer sparks fury with migration plans

Limey serfs will pray on rugs five times a day, beat their wives and sell their daughters,

and they will like it!


4 posted on 05/13/2025 3:32:49 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So the bureaucratic, believe-in-whatever-keeps-me-in-power wing of the party is at war with the true believers.


5 posted on 05/13/2025 3:35:43 PM PDT by mbrfl
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6 posted on 05/13/2025 3:36:38 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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It is past time for the native Brits to say;

“Praise the Lord and pass the admonition.”


7 posted on 05/13/2025 3:56:12 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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