WE HAVE HEARD IT ALL BEFORE...BUT NOW IT IS TIME TO DELIVER

As Keir Starmer becomes the latest PM to promise migration numbers will fall 'significantly' to stop UK becoming an 'island of strangers', your Express says

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TAKE back control of our borders thanks for the get-tough rhetoric Sir Keir, but we've heard it all before.

We don't need the same old ideas and words, we need immediate delivery.

For the most part of this century, Prime Minister after Prime Minister has promised to get a grip and crack down on immigration. But every single one, from Gordon Brown to Rishi Sunak, has failed to control numbers, let alone drive them down.

Even Tony Blair, who opened the floodgates after sweeping to power in 1997, was stung into action as public dismay over his open-door policy intensified.

So why does the current incumbent of No 10 think his new policy will be different and achieve what has been unachievable before? Sir Keir's announcement simply confirms what this newspaper has been saying for years: uncontrolled migration has broken Britain.