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Starmer: Labour got it wrong on migration
The Telegraph ^ | 25 Sep 2025 | Ben Riley-Smith, Charles Hymas

Posted on 09/25/2025 8:16:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Labour has previously got it wrong on migration.

Writing for The Telegraph ahead of a speech countering Reform UK, the Prime Minister acknowledged that, before his leadership, the party “did shy away” from voters’ concerns on illegal immigration.

Sir Keir also unveiled plans for every adult to be issued with a digital ID card to combat illegal migration. The cards would become mandatory for work by the end of the decade. He wrote: “There is no doubt that for years Left-wing parties, including my own, did shy away from people’s concerns around illegal immigration. It has been too easy for people to enter the country, work in the shadow economy and remain illegally.

“We must be absolutely clear that tackling every aspect of the problem of illegal immigration is essential.”

The announcement comes 15 years after Sir Tony Blair’s ID card scheme was scrapped by the incoming Conservative-led coalition on the basis that it was “an erosion of civil liberties”.

The Prime Minister’s speech on patriotism, at the Global Progress Action Conference in London on Friday, is an attempt to take on both Reform and far-Right figures such as Tommy Robinson.

It comes with Sir Keir – on the eve of Labour’s annual party conference – under growing pressure to show that he is capable of reversing the surge in support for Nigel Farage’s party. The Prime Minister is also battling a potential leadership challenge from Andy Burnham, who said in a Telegraph interview this week that MPs were urging him to stand against Sir Keir.

Sir Keir used a TV interview on Thursday to draw a comparison between Mr Burnham and Liz Truss, claiming that his rival’s spending plans would lead to “the infliction of harm” on working people.

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


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1 posted on 09/25/2025 8:16:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Opportunism, or the plan all along? Something really evil is happening here.


2 posted on 09/25/2025 8:18:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MinorityRepublican

The migrant crisis was a pretext to introduce digital ID. They need digital ID to track every dollar you make to confiscate it.


3 posted on 09/25/2025 8:18:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: Billthedrill

The Mark of the Beast


4 posted on 09/25/2025 8:19:04 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Anything except stop them from coming. 🙄


5 posted on 09/25/2025 8:21:40 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Starmer: Labour got it wrong on migration

My bad on that one, OK ?

6 posted on 09/25/2025 8:24:06 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Shy away…” #%@&$!!! You wanted them, invited them, feted them, and put them on the dole at taxpayer expence. It’s your disaster.


7 posted on 09/25/2025 8:25:58 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Starmer. Just admit it. Your countrymen (and most of the women) hate you.

So many PMs have stepped down for far less than you've done to the country.

8 posted on 09/25/2025 8:28:30 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: MinorityRepublican

When they start deporting people to their chithole native lands, only then should we believe him.


9 posted on 09/25/2025 8:30:17 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Billthedrill

So Labour is going to use illegals to force a national ID card on every British citizen. Evil is in full control of England.


10 posted on 09/25/2025 8:32:02 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Billthedrill

It was the plan all along.

“...15 years after Sir Tony Blair’s ID card scheme was scrapped by the incoming Conservative-led coalition on the basis that it was “an erosion of civil liberties”.”

It took Labour’s invitation of illegals to force acceptance of this “erosion of civil liberties”. I’m sure this card will be used for employment, housing, medical care, welfare, pensions, etc.

And the card can be cancelled for any of those with just the push of the “enter” key.


11 posted on 09/25/2025 8:48:45 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: Steely Tom

“Mistakes were made. Let’s move on shall we?”


12 posted on 09/25/2025 9:22:35 PM PDT by princeofdarkness
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To: MinorityRepublican

More of Starmer’s mealy-mouthed double-speak

He knows very well nothing will change.


13 posted on 09/25/2025 9:33:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

Did he say anything about stopping the current invasion?


14 posted on 09/25/2025 9:59:36 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

He opens the border to criminals, then he treats all the regular citizens as criminal suspects.


15 posted on 09/25/2025 11:47:17 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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this clown has the appearance of childhood trauma — hence the revenge


16 posted on 09/26/2025 12:03:09 AM PDT by Gene Eric
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Farange/Reform UK is currently crushing Labour in the polls.

Oh myyyyyy, REFORM UK are 16 points clear in this poll, and 2 points above the Tories and Labour combined!!!

https://x.com/EssexPR/status/1971191471639564597?t=75AxKRhCfji5cVYS-wiang&s=19

17 posted on 09/26/2025 12:32:27 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Jonty30

(Digital ID card)

(The Mark of the Beast)

A precursor of things to come for sure.


18 posted on 09/26/2025 2:09:22 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: VanShuyten

(It took Labour’s invitation of illegals to force acceptance of this “erosion of civil liberties”)

All According to Plan:

Step 1: CREATE “The Problem”

Step 2: MAKE the Citizens Suffer

Step 3: PRESENT “The Solution”

Step 4: MAKE PARTICIPATION is MANDATORY

COVID-19(84) was an excellent dry run
for the coming Mark of the Beast


19 posted on 09/26/2025 2:17:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How a young Sir Keir Starmer ended up in Communist spy files after joining a Czechoslovakian work camp during Cold War

The files from Sir Keir’s camp do not specify whether the secret police planned to use the information they harvested from him and others, but security experts said they also appeared to be gathering intelligence about young high-fliers in Western countries for potential long-term use.

As well as the now Labour leader, other members of his brigade – who also came from the United States, West Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, France and Czechoslovakia – included one who later worked in a senior role in the European Commission and another who became a partner in a City law firm.

Sir Keir had just completed a postgraduate law degree at Oxford University and was about to embark on his barrister training when he arrived for the two-week camp at the Czech-German border town of Cheb on August 16, 1986, according to stamps on the visa.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13532089/young-Sir-Keir-Starmer-ended-Communist-spy-files-Cold-War.html


20 posted on 09/26/2025 2:18:46 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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