Feeding into this is his feverish immigration rhetoric and policy. The “island of strangers” speech; the hectic posting and projection of imagery and footage of crackdown, arrests and deportations; the launch of measure after measure making life harder for those already working and living in the country legally; and for refugees, extending the qualifying time for settlement and ending family reunification. More positions that simply build on the immigration hysteria of the late Tory years and communicate that under Starmer, Labour is a continuity consensus party.