Stem this river of blood spilling into PM's manifesto

RHETORIC has consequences. This column doesn't know how many times that point has to be made for the likes of Sir Keir Starmer to get it.

- DARREN LEWIS

We saw it last summer when thugs using slogans such as “Stop The Boats” targeted people on UK streets for the sole crime of being different.

We see it now with the wedges driven between communities by a far right normalised by Starmer and sections of the right-wing mainstream media.

And we will see it again after the Prime Minister, the man in charge of the supposed party of the working classes, threw millions of the people who voted for him under the bus on Monday morning.

Starmer has announced plans to make it harder for legal immigrants to permanently settle in the UK.

In his press conference early on Monday morning, Starmer sounded like Priti Patel, Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman or Rishi Sunak. Same rhetoric with different wrapping paper.

His use of terms such as "our country" and "island of strangers" didn't just spark a Mexican wave of eyebrows, it sent the name Enoch Powell trending on social media.

Why?