Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for the UK to take back its borders, says the UK is becoming an “island of strangers” and immigrants should learn how to speak English.
Labour and the Tories are both feeling the heat from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls, which could go some way to explaining this new attitude from Sir Keir:
Who is this and what have they done with the real @Keir_Starmer ?
Whoever this is wants to curb mass migration in Great Britain
‘We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) May 12, 2025
“Without [strict rules], we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”
“So when you have an immigration system that seems almost designed to permit abuse … then you’re not championing growth, you’re not championing justice, or however else people defend the status quo.”
“You’re actually contributing to the forces that are slowly pulling our country apart. So, yes, I believe in this. I believe we need to reduce immigration significantly.”
Sir Keir further hammered home the point on his X/Twitter, saying it was ‘common sense’ that ‘if you want to live in the UK, you should speak English’:
If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That’s common sense.
So we’re raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 12, 2025
My government is taking back control of our borders. Here’s how. https://t.co/aaNNY3Pams
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 12, 2025
So the idea in practice is to reduce immigration by allowing only high-skilled, English-speaking migrants to live and work in the UK. Which sounds fair enough, but it’s one thing to promise this, and another to actually deliver and make it happen. Does this even become Keir Starmer’s #1 agenda if Reform UK weren’t on the up and up?
Let’s see how it plays out…
Meanwhile, it seems we can put those rumours of Keir Starmer’s cocaine sesh with Emmanuel Macron to rest…
