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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

Robert Jenrick claims UK ‘already island of strangers’ in rare support for Starmer

Former immigration minister and Tory frontbencher Robert Jenrick has issued a defence of Sir Keir Starmer’s claim that the UK risks becoming “island of strangers” as a result of migration.

Sir Keir faced backlash for the remark, which he made while laying out some of the toughest rules in recent history to crack down on immigration.

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