Starmer “Deeply Regrets” Saying UK Risks Becoming “Island Of Strangers”

Keir Starmer has told The Observer he “deeply regrets” his “island of strangers” migration speech and insisted he didn’t even know it echoed the words of Enoch Powell. And neither, apparently, did his speechwriters…

Having forced his ministers to contort themselves into impossible positions trying to defend the speech in the first place, Starmer has now claimed it was a terrible idea and he was just a slave to his own teleprompter:

“I wouldn’t have used those words if I had known they were, or even would be interpreted as an echo of Powell.