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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Senior faith leaders urge Starmer to tone down migration rhetoric

Keir Starmer with raised hand at podium saying Securing Britain's Future giving his speech on immigration
The faith leaders urged Keir Starmer to focus on building community relationships rather than feeding ‘the politics of grievance and division’. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

More than a dozen bishops and other senior Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith leaders have written to the prime minister after his “island of strangers” speech, urging him to use a more “compassionate narrative” about migrants.

The letter was sent to Keir Starmer after his speech on Monday, which preceded the publication of the government’s immigration white paper that has been widely criticised by migrant rights organisations and civil society groups.

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