Yvette Cooper steered well clear of repeating Keir Starmer’s controversial claim that “Britain risks becoming an island of strangers,” during a tense round of interviews this morning, and it didn’t go unnoticed.
The phrase, which Starmer used earlier in the week while launching his government’s tougher immigration policy, sparked immediate backlash, with many drawing uncomfortable parallels to Enoch Powell’s infamous 1968 speech. Powell warned at the time that rising immigration would leave white Britons feeling like “strangers in their own land” — rhetoric long condemned as inflammatory, reported HuffPost.
