Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has joined the ranks of senior Labour figures backing off Starmer’s language on migration. Nothing terrifies a UK politician more than confected Enoch Powell hysteria…
Sarwar refused to back Starmer’s rhetoric: “Well it’s for the prime minister to use his own language… the prime minister also said that he values the role of migrants he also said he supported an immigration system that worked.” Labour struggling to come to terms with their own policy…
Sarwar joins Sadiq Khan, Eluned Morgan, David Blunkett, Yvette Cooper and a smattering of more critical Labour backbenchers against the language. Wait for Andy Burnham to express his disappointment…
UPDATE: Andy Burnham says he won’t “give a running commentary” on the PM’s language.
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”