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
this notion of british jobs for british workers and a lot of people on the left were saying you should not be using language like that. there was a classic keir starmer line on this and it is, i will control our borders but i will make sure british businesses help to hire brits first. i thought that phrase is a classic keir starmer i am trying here to look to the left and the right until voters that i am on their side, the right until voters that i am on theirside, not the right until voters that i am on their side, not the left of my party. but he didn t say british jobs for british workers, although he did say crackdown on bad bosses. but he is trying in that phase phrase to keep both sides of the argument going. it is phrase to keep both sides of the argument going- phrase to keep both sides of the araument anoin. , ,., ., argument going. it is something that labour leaders argument going. it is something that labour leaders wrestle argument going. it is something that labou
then there is this notion of british jobs for british workers and a lot of people on the left were saying you should not be using language like that. there was a classic keir starmer line on this and it is, i will control our borders but i will make sure british businesses help to hire brits first. i thought that phrase is a classic keir starmer, i am trying here to look to the left and the right and tell voters that i am on their side, not the left of my party. but he didn t say british jobs for british workers, although he did say crackdown on bad bosses. but he is trying in that phrase to keep both sides of the argument going. it is something that labour leaders wrestle with, notjust gordon brown. one of the things on the tombstone that ed miliband would have put in the garden of downing street was controlled immigration. they even put it on a mug famously and a lot of people then said