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Ir Keir Starmer apologised for his comments that Britain risked becoming a “stranger’s island” due to excessive immigration, and said he “deeply” regretted using a language that reflected the controversial conservative minister, Enoch Powell.
The prime minister said it was “incorrect” to use the phrase in his speech last month. He has pledged that the labor government will crack down on immigration figures.
He said he didn’t know that neither he nor his speechwriter had similarities to Powell’s line in his infamous 1968 “River of Blood” speech.
In a speech on May 12, the Prime Minister said that the state relies on fair rules, values, rights, liability and mutual obligations.
Enoch Powell delivers a controversial 1968 “Blood River” speech to immigrants ©Central Press/Hulton/Getty Images
The use of that particular phrase attracted anger from left-wing critics. They believe they are turning too right to the right to neutralize the threat from Reform Britain, Nigel Farrage’s populist party that currently leads the vote in this year’s local elections and has won parliament from workers in the Northern Heartland.
“If I knew they were, or even interpreted as Powell’s echo, I wouldn’t have used those words. I didn’t know – and my speechwriter didn’t know either.”
“But that particular phrase – no, it wasn’t right. I’ll give you an honest truth – I deeply regret using it.”
After the minister has spent days following upholding the language, the change in stance is the latest U-turn by priority players in recent weeks.
The Prime Minister x winter fuel payments for most pensioners, resisting for months, then pressured him to start a nationwide investigation into grooming gangs, flipping his welfare bill this week to stop the huge back-venture rebellion.
Earlier this month, the eugenics said they wanted to make it clearer in their immigrant speeches and, looking back, it didn’t sound “progressive.”
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In an interview with observer Tom Baldwin (former journalist and one-time press principal wrote his ancestors), the prime minister also accepted that the preface had a “language problem” in the preface in a policy document released by the government in June.
The paper said the record number of migrants entering the UK under the last government had committed “immense damage” to the country.
Priority said the issue needed to be addressed because it was “a kind of immigrant and far from working-class people.” However, he admitted, “This was not the way to do that in this current environment.”
In the same interview, the Prime Minister also revealed that his sister-in-law lived in his old London home when it was bombed last month.
The Prime Minister said his wife’s sister and her partner were in the bedroom of their previous residence in Tufnell Park when the attack occurred at 1:30am.
“She was still awake,” Starmer said. “So she heard the noise and got the firefighter. But that could have been a different story.”
Three men are charged in connection with an arson attack on a star-linked property. Kentish Town Properties, a building in Islington connected to PM, a vehicle that was previously owned.
Elsewhere in the work revealed that he made the intentional point of embracing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Normally, I would wait a step to say hello to him,” he said. “But I was really conscious that he had left the White House myself, so I walked towards him and gave him a kind of embrace.
“That’s why I last put him out in the car. I wanted him to know you wouldn’t leave my house on your own.”
