LONDON: Concerned that his remarks may exacerbate public fear and drive a wedge between communities, UK religious groups have urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reconsider his approach to the topic of migration.
Faith leaders are urging a more humane approach, reminding Starmer that migrants have been instrumental in forming the nation, even as he defends his harder attitude.
In an effort to stop the hard right from losing support, Labour leader Starmer this week unveiled stricter new plans to address rising migration rates.
He said that the UK was in danger of becoming “an island of strangers” in a speech, which sparked similarities to similar language in the late politician Enoch Powell’s 1968 “rivers of blood” speech about the perils of unchecked immigration.
