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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Starmer has broken silence on immigration policy but electoral risks are clear

Keir Starmer at the dispatch box in the House of Commons
Keir Starmer is trying to sound tough about ‘smashing the gangs’ abusing the system while disavowing the extreme solutions of the Tories. Photograph: Uk Parliament/Maria Unger/Reuters

Few issues have made Labour tie itself in knots as much as immigration over the past decades.

There have been times when the party has tried to ignore the subject, and subsequent high levels of public dissatisfaction with the quadrupling of net migration during the Blair and Brown eras.

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