Sir Keir Starmer has warned that the UK risks becoming “an island of strangers” as he laid out some of the toughest rules in recent history to crack down on immigration.
Sir Keir also said that the number of people entering the country is causing “incalculable damage” – remarks that have provoked a furious backlash, with his own MPs joining trade unions and charities in comparing the language with that of the far right and Enoch Powell.
