UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer "completely rejects" suggestions that his remarks on immigration this week echoed an inflammatory speech from the 1960s, his spokesman said Tuesday following a backlash.

In Monday’s Downing Street speech, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pledged that his Labour government would “take back control of our borders” and “tighten up every area of the immigration system”. The speech was met with backlash as some claimed it echoed the racially charged Rivers of Blood speech made by Enoch Powell in 1968.

Keir Starmer stands by his controversial claim that high levels of immigration risk making Britain “an island of strangers”. The prime minister’s official spokesman also rejected claims that his comments made him sound like right-wing former Tory minister Enoch Powell.

Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain risked becoming an "island of strangers" as he unveiled new UK immigration rules. The prime minister said his government would "take back control of our borders" and bring down net migration,

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would end the country's "failed experiment in open borders" with a sweeping set of reforms to significantly drive down net migration.

as outlined in a speech by Sir Keir Starmer on Monday. The PM promised to bring down immigration numbers by tightening up the rules on those allowed to come to the UK. Details of the plans have been published in a white paper, a government document that ...