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Labour

Starmer’s lurch to the right

Posted on 24th June 2025 by International Socialism

“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.

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