Award-winning historian Dr David Starkey has bemoaned the current state of play in Britain, claiming it has been “destroyed” by Tony Blair and New Labour.
He joined Steve Edginton on GB News to discuss the former PM’s legacy, and Starkey feels many elements of Blair’s 10-year tenure are still evident today.
Particularly migration, which surged in the Blair years after he took office in 1997.
Starkey said the policy model of immigration has destroyed the UK’s fabric as he furiously ranted about New Labour.
David Starkey hit out at Tony Blair
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“The Britain I grew up in was the most peaceful, the most gentle, homogenous society that has ever existed”, he said.
“We did not need identity cards. We had extraordinarily low levels of crime. We had such high levels of public trust.
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“That has been destroyed. It has been deliberately destroyed by Tony Blair and New Labour with this absurd notion they were going to force us to become multi-ethnic for good.
“They were going to rub the noses of the whites and the dirt. We’ve got to understand that it is an act of such inconceivable national self-harm.”
Starkey is concerned that Britain, now being led by a Labour Government for the first time since the Blair years, may undergo another transition.
“Keir Starmer represents an intensely authoritarian streak”, he said.
Keir Starmer's Labour won the election with more than 400 seats POOL“People get very confused because Starmer was a human rights lawyer. They think he’s sort of, all soft and cuddly.
“Human rights are really nice, aren’t they? But what we’ve got to remember is that the sort of human rights that Starmer represents are the rights of only minorities.
“This is the terrifying thing. Democracy has been stood on its head. Democracy means the rule of the majority.
“It’s not completely inverted to mean the protection of every exotic minority you can think of against the majority.”
David Starkey joined Steve Edginton on GB News
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Starmer has been under pressure to shed light on how Labour intends on going about stopping perilous trips across the Channel made by illegal migrants.
The Prime Minister said throughout the election campaign his Government will seek to “smash the gangs”.
The previous Government’s idea to send migrants to Rwanda was scrapped within hours of Starmer taking office after he continually branded it a “gimmick”.
A new Border Security Command is set to come into force with the Government promising millions of pounds in funding.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We all want to see an end to the dangerous small boat crossings, which are undermining border security and putting lives at risk.
"The new Government is taking steps to boost our border security, setting up a new Border Security Command which will bring together our intelligence and enforcement agencies, equipped with new counter-terror-style powers and hundreds of personnel stationed in the UK and overseas, to smash the criminal smuggling gangs making millions in profit."