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# Starmer: Drifting right
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/05/18/starmer-drifting-right/
- Published: 2025-05-18T00:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-29T22:57:42.000Z
- Description: Labour’s immigration message jars as Keir Starmer echoes Reform rhetoric while pitching unity. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, TODAY+

Today’s cartoon highlights the contradiction in Labour’s immigration stance, echoing far-right rhetoric while claiming to build a “nation of neighbours.” It underscores Keir Starmer’s apparent shift towards Reform UK territory, contrasting the “island of strangers” with the “nation of neighbours” narrative. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2025/05/0000253b-min.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png) 

### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [1.5m foreign workers already in UK could face longer wait for permanent settlement](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/14/foreign-workers-uk-wait-permanent-settlement?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN

  
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