There is no doubt that for years, Left-wing parties, including my own, did shy away from people’s concerns around illegal immigration. It has been too easy for people to enter the country, work in the shadow economy and remain illegally. It gets really divisive here, violent struggle, defining struggle, poisonous belief. The people who protested in London had “reasonable concerns” and Starmer smeared them just a few paragraphs up. He’s creating a sense of a national emergency to justify the creation of these ID cards knowing full well it’s not going to fix the problem that he’s claiming it will.