Not that it is a surprise given the direction, but the only German party leader that I could find giving a statement on yesterday's immigration annoucements by Keir Starmer was Alice Weidel and the AfD celebrating the turn in migration policy.

Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.

Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

Keir Starmer immitates Reform in his divisive speech.

Accuses immigrants of causing “incalculable damage”, making the UK “an island of strangers”.

Rightly faces backlash from unions, employers, MPs.

Silence on class war, inequalities, profiteering, lack of public services, fuelling frustrations.

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe".

A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

Lose to Reform so give Reform everything they want. Well, that's been a winning strategy so far. Once again we have a government hell bent on demonising migrants to pander to what is in fact a minority of voters. It doesn't work, and people suffer in the meantime.

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Tom Baldwin: “Labour are not losing votes to Reform, they are losing votes to Libdems and the Greens. It's the Conservatives that are losing shitloads of voters to Reform.”
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🔴Nigel Farage Is Killing the Conservatives and Starmer Must Change Course to Avoid the Same Fate

Telling voters the Reform leader is right, but they shouldn’t vote for him, is no more likely to work for Labour than it has for the Tories, argues Adam Bienkov
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