{"id":99087,"date":"2025-05-13T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99087\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:33:11","slug":"starmers-island-of-strangers-speech-the-migration-crackdown-and-what-it-could-mean-for-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/99087\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer\u2019s \u201cisland of strangers\u201d speech, the migration crackdown, and what it could mean for Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Prime Minister promises to reduce net migration to the UKThe Labour leader accuses Tories of causing \u201cincalculable\u201d damage to Britain with \u201copen borders\u201d policy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s official spokesman said the Prime Minister rejects comparisons between his language in a migration speech and that of Enoch Powell (Ian Vogler\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2.80088162.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s official spokesman said the Prime Minister rejects comparisons between his language in a migration speech and that of Enoch Powell (Ian Vogler\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set out his plans to reduce migration saying high migration figures have caused \u201cincalculable\u201d damage to British society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He said Britain risks becoming an \u201cisland of strangers\u201d without better integration and he wants migration to have fallen \u201csignificantly\u201d by the next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister promises to reduce net migration to the UKThe Labour leader accuses Tories of causing \u201cincalculable\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[46029,807,528,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-99087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ciaran-dunbar","9":"tag-keir-starmer","10":"tag-labour-party","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114502670996086399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}