Keir Starmer’s Labour is being “cautious” in its messaging ahead of the July 4th general election, but a senior party official has been unable to contain her excitement about sweeping plans to reverse major aspects of Brexit if it gets into government. Details of these changes are only just coming to light, but appear to have been in the works for some time.
Labour International chair Fiona Urquhart said, in comments seen by The Mail on Sunday, that Starmer’s top team “is prepared to revisit some of the Brexit agreements” and believes “restoring that freedom of movement is paramount.”
The Labour Party has made it clear that it wants to see a greater level of freedom of movement within the EU for Britons, in particular for professionals and trade.
Robert Bates, who is research director at the Centre for Migration Control (CfMC) think tank, said the comments reveal what many on the Right already suspected—that “the Labour Party is unashamedly pro-freedom of movement.” He told The European Conservative:
Keir Starmer and most of the shadow frontbench [under then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn] spent the entirety of 2019 pushing for Britain’s borders to remain open to hundreds of millions of people on the continent.
Let’s not forget that this Labour Party is also hell-bent on extending the franchise, not just to 16-year-olds but to EU citizens as well. They are nakedly attempting to gerrymander the makeup of the British electorate.
A Labour official has denied the claim that his party would bring back free movement with the European Union.
But however many times Starmer has stressed he wants to “make Brexit work” (whatever that means), Labour representatives have made it quite clear that they intend to draw Britain closer to Brussels via schemes such as a ‘youth mobility agreement’ if they get into office. Urquhart’s comments suggest that Starmer shares these desires and is simply being coy about them now to keep British patriots on side while the Conservative government circles the drain.
Urquhart told a Mallorca newspaper in March that Labour “is being cautious, it’s not making too many bold announcements because, should it come to power, it does not know what it’s going to be faced with.”
But I can’t stress enough that it is well aware of many of the problems facing Britons overseas, especially in the EU.
The problem at this election, added the CfMC’s Bates, is that “Conservative Party attempts to present themselves as any different are an egregious assault upon the truth,” too. He said:
Since 2021, and Britain having left the European Union, mass migration has skyrocketed precisely because the Tories have given visas to millions of non-European Economic Area citizens.
The choice at this election is between a Conservative Party who claim to want controlled borders, yet do exactly the opposite, or a Labour Party that is avowedly pro mass migration. The British public deserve better.
Social conservative author and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens agrees that the choice is unfortunate, but says he would prefer to see “passive Blairite” Tory leader Rishi Sunak as prime minister rather than Starmer, who is an “active one.”
