Editorial Board
Starmer Needs a Better Answer on Immigration
With public anger boiling over, and Nigel Farage waiting in the wings, the UK is at a turning point on migration.
There’s a better way.
Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Immigration is fast becoming Britain’s most combustible issue. To respond to growing public frustration — and head off a surge of support for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party — Prime Minister Keir Starmer needs a more responsive agenda.
Britain’s migration argument is a tangle of numbers and narratives.