Sir Keir Starmer is accused of “fooling the public” for proposing years of immigrant repression that has supported open borders.
The Prime Minister insisted in a major speech yesterday that he had long believed in wanting to limit the number of newcomers to the UK and launch foreign criminals.
He warned the country of risk of becoming a “stranger island” and that high immigration has caused “immeasurable damage” to public services, housing and the economy.
However, he was called “Starmer Chameleon” by the Conservatives, and they stressed that his statement before entering the 10th was the exact opposite.
The government’s long-awaited white paper promises to curb judges’ deportation and reduce their power to immigration in the UK by reducing it by 98,000 per year.
But the hard language of PM – described by shadow home secretary Chris Philp as a “miraculous conversion” – has sparked backlash from the workforce left and union, while experts in the healthcare industry have raised new concerns about the impact of proposed restrictions on work visas.
In the 2020 Labor Leadership Competition, Sir Kyle said, “The free movement has always been beneficial” and “our immigration system should be welcomed and compassionate.”
He also supports a “safer, more legal route” that allows people to join their families instead of crossing channels and close immigration detention centers and give asylum seekers the right to work.
Sir Keir Starmer (pictured) is accused of “fooling the public” for his proposal for immigration repression – after years of support for the open border
After the channel crossed yesterday, people believed to be immigrants saw it on the bus in Dover
Illegal immigrants disembarked at Dover Port in Dover City, England on May 12, 2025
In another 2020 speech, he said: “We welcome immigrants, we do not replace them.” One of his ten promises at the time (now abandoned) was the “Defense Movement of Freedom” and the establishment of an “immigration system based on compassion and dignity.”
During the campaign, he signed a letter calling on the Ministry of Home Affairs to cancel deportation for the sending of 50 Jamaican offenders home, including rapists, thefts and robbers, and suspending “all future charter flights.”
In fact, even after being elected in 2015, he gave his first speech to the House of Commons, he proposed plans to the Conservative Party’s plan to allow deportation. When a young barrister once wrote, there was a “undercurrent of racism infiltrating all immigration laws.”
Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch said: “It’s amazing to hear Keir Starmer’s proposal. Labor is taking the public as a fool.”
Mr. Phelp said: “The Prime Minister claimed this morning that suddenly, he wanted to control immigration. It surprised me. He seemed to have experienced a miraculous conversion.
“He obviously denied everything he had believed, or maybe the Prime Minister was doing what he had been doing – saying he thought people wanted to hear.”
Mr. Phelp called for “annual immigration constraints” and that the Human Rights Act no longer applies to immigration matters.
“It’s a fanatical chameleon in action – saying one thing, doing another, and reducing our power through a bill on the same day to deal with those who come here illegally,” Shadow Home Office Secretary Matt Vickers told The Mail.
Two border force vessels take suspected migrants to Kent’s Port Dover on a busy day due to calm conditions at sea
Yesterday, the group accompanied the gangway in Dover wearing orange life jackets
I saw immigrants being taken to the port today, today in Dover, Kent
Reform British leader Nigel Farage said: “Many of the things he said are the same things I said over 20 years, and that’s Steamer’s question, insincere. What does this person really believe in?
Sir Kyle denied his vow in his Downing Street speech yesterday morning to reduce net immigration – the number of people who settled in Britain every year minus the number of people who left – a reaction to the popularity of reform.
“I do this because it’s right, because it’s fair.” “I believe we need to reduce immigration drastically.
“That’s why some of the policies in this white paper go back to nearly three years, and that’s why I told the Labor Conference that “take back control” was a labor argument and, most importantly, the inner immigration is already related to this government.”
The email asked if his views had changed because he is now expected to “enforce the law more strong than ever,” five years after calling for deportation to be stopped.
Sir Kyle replied: “No, I always say that those who commit crimes should be deported.”
Yesterday, Dover’s latest immigration arrival coincided with new government plans
In this bird’s-eye view, inflatable Dinggi and outboard motors believed to be used by illegal immigrants to cross the UK channel from France to England are stored in a home office in Dover, England on May 12, 2025
However, the Prime Minister refused to consider resigning from the European Convention on Human Rights or the Human Rights Law in immigration cases, as many on the right have asked.
Immigrants continue to cross the channel illegally, with the total passing 35,000 on Sunday since Labor came to power. Another immigrant died yesterday, and another 60 were rescued from France.
As of June 2023, the net mobility rate reached a record 906,000. The latest official figures will be published next week.
