{"id":74690,"date":"2026-07-02T03:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/74690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:05:11","slug":"racism-and-intolerance-have-worsened-in-britain-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/74690\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism and intolerance have worsened in Britain, Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, US<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that racism and intolerance had worsened in Britain over the past decade, warning it was damaging social cohesion and deterring people from public life.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke a day after a Reuters report found some Britons of colour fear a resurgence of racism linked to anti-migrant rhetoric and a political focus on crime, following recent unrest including protests in Southampton after the murder of Henry Nowak and rioting in Belfast after a stabbing attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Uk-London-Trafalgar-Square-anti-far-right-protest-280326020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><br \/>Demonstrators march against far-right extremism from Park Lane to Trafalgar Square, organised by the Together Alliance, a coalition of unions and civil society groups, in London, Britain, on 28th March, 2026. \u00a0PICTURE: Reuters\/Hannah McKay\/File photo<\/p>\n<p>Facing questions in parliament, Starmer said \u201cracism and intolerance is permeating everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British leader was responding to a lawmaker who said he was worried that racism and the incitement of violence linked to it were being normalised, including by some politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to deal with it, because it\u2019s tearing our societies apart,\u201d Starmer said, adding that \u201cit should be called out by every single person who is a politician at any level in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\tWe rely on our readers to fund Sight&#8217;s work &#8211; become a financial supporter today!<\/p>\n<p>Starmer recalled the 2016 death of Labour lawmaker Jo Cox, an active supporter of immigration and social cohesion, who was killed by a far-right extremist days before the Brexit referendum.<\/p>\n<p>He said that when reflecting recently upon her death he felt things had got worse, not better, in the intervening decade.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s Reuters report cited warnings from trade unions and professional bodies about rising racist abuse in workplaces and public life, alongside heightened tensions following the unrest across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage, the leader of populist party Reform UK, has accused British institutions of discriminating against white people, arguing they were biased by policies aimed at supporting ethnic minorities. Starmer has rejected those claims.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the tone of political debate, Starmer said: \u201cThat\u2019s on us to fix \u2013 every single member of this house, whatever their party is and anybody who inflames it should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London, USReuters Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that racism and intolerance had worsened in Britain over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[29466,13,26937,33915,94,3709,95,3647,408,5],"class_list":["post-74690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-belfast-riots","tag-britain","tag-henry-nowak","tag-intolerance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-migrants","tag-nigel-farage","tag-racism","tag-reform-uk","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116848173033048773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}