‘An island of strangers’: is this the Labour party voters wanted? - podcast
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Version 0 of 1. Helen Pidd heads to parliament to hear what Labour MPs think about the government’s new talk on immigration, and asks the columnist Nesrine Malik whether it may all backfire On Monday, Keir Starmer announced the government’s latest proposals to reduce immigration. The plans included restricting visas for students and skilled workers, tightening up English language requirements and – perhaps most drastically – aiming to end all overseas recruitment of social care workers by 2028. Yet maybe more notable than the policies was the language Starmer used to introduce them. The country, he said, was at risk of becoming ‘an island of strangers’; language that has drawn sharp criticism from within Labour. Helen Pidd heads to parliament to hear what Labour MPs think about the government’s new talk on immigration, while the columnist Nesrine Malik argues that, in the end, Labour’s political strategy may still backfire. |