To see off Reform, Keir Starmer must speak for the Somewheres
'Nigel Farage is right, please don't vote for him,' is how one dispirited Labour supporting academic summed up Monday's white paper on immigration. My own reaction was 'two cheers for Keir'. As a former Labour member who left a decade ago partly thanks to the party's enthusiasm for mass immigration, I was happy to see him embracing most of the arguments that we sceptics have been making for 20 years: the pace of cultural change is too fast, the economic benefit is overestimated, the pressure on public services and housing underestimated, too many visa routes are abused, many of the benefits of immigration have been privatised while the costs are nationalised.
Credit where it is due: Labour's white paper is challenging two of its core
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