Keir Starmer pauses, during a press conference, ahead of the publication of the government’s Immigration White Paper, in London, Monday, May 12, 2025. Keir Starmer is certainly talking a good game when it comes to cutting immigration.The UK risks becoming “an island of strangers”, the prime minister said, unless something is done to reduce the numbers coming from abroad.He went even further in his foreword to the government’s immigration white paper, which was published this morning.“The damage [high immigration] has done to our country is incalculable,” Starmer thundered.It is no exaggeration to say that those words would not have been out of place coming from the mouth of Nigel Farage.And that is where the prime minister has a major problem. Because while the public expect the Reform UK leader to come out with anti-migrant rhetoric, whether they agree with it or not, it seems wholly out of place when uttered by Starmer.There’s a good reason for this, of course. Because he