Boris Johnson lets rip at Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘deaf’ response to UK’s migration concerns – ‘No excuses!’

Boris Johnson has said “nothing excuses” Sir Keir Starmer’s failure to understand public concern on immigration as he branded the Government “deaf” to the issues that have led to riots.

The former prime minister took aim at the Labour leader as he criticised Starmer’s handing of the anti-immigration protests that have spread across Britain since three young girls were killed in Southport last week.

Johnson was critical of those who had turned to rioting and looting but said Labour was failing to tackle the issues which had led to rallies in the first place.

The ex-Tory leader highlighted that Starmer had been swift to end the Rwanda deportation scheme and to scrap the use of the Bibby Stockholm for housing migrants who enter the UK illegally.

Johnson wrote: “Whatever you may have intended by all this, you gave the clear impression of a man who has no plan to stop illegal immigration because he simply doesn’t care.

“Nothing excuses the behaviour of the rioters, and they deserve to be banged up.

“But nothing excuses a government that seems deaf to public concerns, and that suggests, moreover, that they actively dislike all members of the public who share those concerns.”

Polling indicates that while the UK public is overwhelmingly against those rioting, 34 per cent have sympathy with those peacefully demonstrating their concerns with immigration.

“It is time to reflect, PM, as you sip on your sundowner, on whether you struck exactly the right note on illegal immigration,” Johnson wrote in his Daily Mail column.

His comments were made after the Prime Minister referred to those on the streets as “far right thugs”.

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