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Starmer’s message to migrants: "Learn perfect English, pay more, and don’t stay long."
To businesses: "Find Brits to do the jobs we’ve underpaid for years."
To the far right: "Please like us now?"
Britain deserves better.
#Labour #Starmer #RefugeesWelcome #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns […]

Welcome to the era of ‘hostage politics’, where Labour is apparently your only hope | Nesrine Malik First it was the Conservatives and now Reform. The only thing the government has to offer is that it’s the least worst option, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise
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Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift […]

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Labour MP says Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ warning over immigration mimics scaremongering of far right – UK politics live PM unveils new policies meant to drive down net migration by end of this parliament

Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift #ReformRise

Labour thinks the key to power is pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment. Meanwhile, the NHS, construction, and hospitality rely on migrant workers to function. This isn’t “realism”—it’s cowardice dressed as strategy. #LabourValues #PolicyConcerns #LabourDrift […]

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The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming | Polly Toynbee Rapid, highly visible action in communities and a forthright attack on the new right – that is what’s needed now, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Starmer's strategy: alienate the base, appease no one.
Reform UK surges, and Labour's identity crisis deepens.
Is this the change we voted for? #LabourDrift #ReformRise

Starmer's strategy: alienate the base, appease no one.
Reform UK surges, and Labour's identity crisis deepens.
Is this the change we voted for? #LabourDrift #ReformRise www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/0...