In the wake of far-right riots that gripped the United Kingdom, the new British Government will have to pick up the pieces after years of conservative anti-immigration rhetoric.
The riots capitalized by the extreme right began from misinformation around the murder of three girls who were attending a dance workshop in the English city of Southport. Social media users incorrectly identified the attacker as an immigrant and a Muslim.
Misinformation led to a week of violent riots that the prime minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer described as “far-right thuggery“.
Anti-racism protesters take to the streets
However, on Wednesday night, UK police, expecting more unrest from far-right protesters, were met with peaceful protesters against racism who showed up en masse.
Despite this, anti-immigration sentiment in the UK has arguably been bubbling beneath the surface for many years.
This led millions of people to vote for Brexit and led the Conservative government to propose plans to send migrants to migrant camps in Rwanda and admit them barges off the coast.
The new Labor Government has scrapped these policies; described them as tricks and ways of squander money of taxpayers. It is now up to Starmer pick up the broken dishes years of conservative anti-immigration rhetoric and failed policies, which ultimately increased tensions in the country.
New Labor policies
The former advisor to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron, Nigel Fletcherbelieves that the Labor Party must do what the Conservatives failed to do by taking meaningful action on migration:
“The Labor Party not only has to solve it, but also solve it in a way that is markedly and demonstrably different in form and substance from how the conservative Government I was looking to respond to it. “If the new Government continues with some of the rhetoric and some of the hardline anti-immigration policies that the previous Government had, they will face sections of their own party.”
Customs police against human traffickers
The new UK Government recently announced plans to create a Border Security Command to tackle gangs. human traffickingreflecting a broader European fight against migration.
As the political landscape evolves, the challenge will be to apply policies respectful of human rights and that they are effective so that they satisfy both sides of the political spectrum.
Additional sources • Enrique Barrueco (Voice-over)
