Starmer adopts farage’s anti-Immigration rhetoric after discovering that half of the UK no longer feels at home
A new survey has confirmed what had long been considered taboo by the British political class: nearly half of UK citizens report feeling like strangers in their own country. This revelation has compelled Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to break from the open borders dogma and partially embrace the rhetoric of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
The survey, conducted by the consultancy More in Common with 13,000 participants, revealed that 44% of Britons sometimes feel like strangers in their own country. This sentiment cuts across social classes and backgrounds, with mass immigration identified as a significant factor, even though the survey avoided direct questions on the topic.
Despite this methodological caution, the data is unequivocal. Seventy-three percent of respondents believe more should be done to integrate people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and 77% think that integration should be a collective responsibility.
Reform UK voters express this sentiment most strongly: 73% reported feeling like foreigners in their own country. Even among Conservative (48%) and Labour (34%) voters, the discomfort is notable. Remarkably, 47% of Britons of Asian descent—primarily of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan heritage—also reported feeling like strangers in the UK.
The perception of an increasingly fragmented society was exacerbated last year following the murder of three teenagers during a Taylor Swift-themed party in Southport. The attacker, Axel Rudakubana, a second-generation Rwandan immigrant, sparked a wave of protests against mass immigration. While progressive media labeled the incident as an outbreak of “racism,” many citizens saw it as further evidence of the failure of multicultural policies.
In response, Prime Minister Starmer recently made statements that shocked the left-wing media. He acknowledged that mass immigration has not benefited the working class and has endangered national cohesion, turning the UK into an “island of strangers.”
According to More in Common’s director, Luke Tryl, the issue extends beyond immigration, citing factors such as the cost of living, loss of shared spaces, and post-pandemic isolation. However, he admitted that this social fragmentation “resonates with millions who feel disconnected from those around them.”
Meanwhile, affluent neighborhoods remain insulated from the problem. It is the poorer areas that have borne the brunt of decades of uncontrolled immigration, while their concerns have been systematically ignored by traditional parties.
