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Evening Standard
Politics
Ross Lydall

Immigrants are not spongers or skivers, says Sadiq Khan, after PM's 'island of strangers' speech

Sir Sadiq Khan has defended immigrants as “not spongers or skivers” as the row over Sir Keir Starmer’s warning of Britain becoming an “island of strangers” intensified.

In a Downing Street speech on Monday, the Prime Minister vowed that the Labour Government would “take back control of our borders” and close the book on a “squalid chapter” for politics and the economy.

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