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David Lynch

Cooper defends Starmer as migration speech likened to ‘rivers of blood’ language

Yvette Cooper has defended Sir Keir Starmer amid criticism that his language as he set out plans to crack down on migration echoed Enoch Powell’s infamous “rivers of blood” speech.

The Home Secretary insisted the tone of the Prime Minister’s migration plan was “completely different” from the 1968 anti-immigration speech.

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