he said sort of cryptic things, migration is too high, yes, i think 700,000 were there it s too big, but today, for the first time in this campaign, he s been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which that is a different thing to saying i think it s too high, why? should the next general election be around that time, people like you and me will say you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it s significant because of the politics of it and the politics of it are pretty obvious and we should bill it out anyway. this is keir starmer, yet again, as he has every day since, though, it was a bit different at the start, he is trying to basically bash voters over the head with a message that he is moving the labour party way to the right of where it was in 2019 and 2017 general elections when their approach to immigration would ve been quite different to this. that is the message here. we can see this is the mess
it is laura in the studio. and it is henry in the studio. henry in the studio. today s big sto is henry in the studio. today s big story is keir henry in the studio. today s big story is keir starmer s - henry in the studio. today s big story is keir starmer s promise | henry in the studio. today s big i story is keir starmer s promise on migration. he has said cryptic things for a long time since he has been leader, yes, migration is too high, 700,000 people coming to the country is too big a number. but today for the first time in this campaign he has been clear about a commitment to get the numbers down, which, henry, is a different thing to say i think it is too high. why? because in five weeks per match time should he become prime minister, people like you and me also you made a commitment in the last general election, how have you delivered against it? i also think it is significant because of the politics. the politics are obvious, but we shall spell it out anyway. t
saying controls on immigration if people don t believe that he actually wants to control it in the way the voters labour at that point were losing wanted to. one thing thatis were losing wanted to. one thing that is interesting, where did keir starmer say read my lips? fin that is interesting, where did keir starmer say read my lips?- that is interesting, where did keir starmer say read my lips? on the sun on sunda . starmer say read my lips? on the sun on sunday- and starmer say read my lips? on the sun on sunday- and i starmer say read my lips? on the sun on sunday. and i know starmer say read my lips? on the sun on sunday. and i know newspapers i starmer say read my lips? on the sun| on sunday. and i know newspapers are not as powerful on sunday. and i know newspapers are not as powerful or on sunday. and i know newspapers are not as powerful or influential on sunday. and i know newspapers are not as powerful or influential as - not as powerful or influential as they used
it is no good ed miliband saying controls on immigration if people don t believe that he actually wants to control it in the way the voters labour at that point were losing wanted to. one thing that is interesting, where did keir starmer say read my lips? on the sun on sunday. and i know newspapers are not as powerful or influential as they used to be, their power and influence has been overstated anyway. often by themselves. by themselves and their most ardent critics. they do matter. i don t know if they do, but for those who think they do, if you are watching what is happening with the sun, which endorsed blair, having switched from the conservatives, they like to back a winner and they are giving keir starmer a fair wind, and i think watch out for that in a few weeks. even if you don t think the papers and what they do matter to you, there are big clues on what the parties and where the parties choose