Rivers of mud slung at Keir Starmer's door

SIR Keir Starmer faced a backlash as Downing Street defended his immigration crackdown.

- By Michael Knowles Home Affairs Editor

The Prime Minister warned the UK could become an "island of strangers" because integration had failed due to mass migration.

Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan led a left-wing Labour backlash, refusing to support Sir Keir's language as others accused him of echoing Enoch Powell's "rivers of blood" speech.

Sir Sadiq said: "The sort of language that I use is different to the sort of language used by others.

"That's not the sort of words that I would use. We've gone from a situation where lawful migration was 100,000, 200,000 to where it's 900,000, 700,000, more than 600,000, and I think we should have control over our borders.