Labor must stop looking down on workers' voters and take immigration problems seriously, Sir Keir Starmer has told his cabinet.
In a letter of 1500 words to his top team, the Prime Minister said that his party should acknowledge that working people abandoned earlier governments that abandoned migration and they have to stop patronizing.
The prime minister has raised an incident with a voter in Oldham, Greater Manchester, who 'had to explain that she was not a racist' before she spoke about immigration with a Labor Member of Parliament.
He added: 'Somehow politics became too scared to say what is self -evident – that some people are real refugees and some are not; That people come to work here can be positive, but that an island nation must control its limits.
Sir Keir Starmer has told his cabinet that Labor should stop looking out on workers' voters and take immigration problems seriously
In a letter to his top team, the prime minister said that his party should acknowledge that working people abandoned earlier governments on migration
“What started with good confidence that paternalism can look too easily at people.”
With reform UK that leads in the polls, Sir Keir also told the ministers that they should show the public that the immigration policy of the Nigel Farage party is not the answer to the problems of Great Britain.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice said last night: “To be honest, it must have to tell the Prime Minister his own cabinet to stop looking out on workers' voters and take immigration seriously.”
