UK's anti-immigrant turn will extract a price

UK PM Keir Starmer chose some ugly phrasing while announcing an overhaul of the country's immigration policy — that rising immigration risked making the UK "an island of strangers".

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UK PM Keir Starmer chose some ugly phrasing while announcing an overhaul of the country's immigration policy — that rising immigration risked making the UK "an island of strangers". This betrays a capitulation to the politics of xenophobia and racism identified with Reforms UK, a rival party of Starmer's Labour, which recorded a good showing in the recent local polls. The political cost of such panic aside, Starmer needs to take a careful look at the long-term effects of his immigration squeeze.