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Starmer accused of ‘dog whistle’ politics by Tory Home Secretary
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking at a major campaign event at the Royal Horticultural Halls in central London, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 29, 2024

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer suffered the humiliation of being called out on racism by a Tory Home Secretary today.

James Cleverly accused him of a “dog whistle” attack on Bangladeshis after Sir Keir had queried why they were not being deported from Britain more frequently.

Mr Cleverly said that Sir Keir had made “this weird dog whistle attack on the Bangladeshi community where he’s claiming that we are not returning people to Bangladesh — which was not true and not relevant because the Bangladeshi community make a tiny, tiny, tiny, less than a half a per cent of small boat arrivals.”

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