Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a dire warning over Britain and the West's spiralling migrant crises.
Abbott, who was elected in 2013 on the back of a "stop the boats" slogan, has warned that importing migrants from "destructive" cultures risks "diluting" the countries in which they arrive, including the UK.
Writing for The Australian following the country's federal election at the start of May, Abbott said neither the victorious Anthony Albanese nor the ousted Peter Dutton "wanted to touch" immigration on the campaign trail.
"Once dismissing immigration moves from the need to get it down to the practical steps to cut it, the vested interests it benefits are prone to take offence," he warned.
Abbott issued a dire warning over Britain and the West's spiralling migrant crises following the Australian Federal Election
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Universities, businesses and "reform-shy officials" who had been "relying on immigration as the lazy way to generate economic growth" were some of those likely to be offended, the ex-PM said.
Others include "the moralists who want large numbers of migrants to dilute the Anglo culture they find dull or otherwise dislike", and the recent arrivals who are "inclined to take personally any critique of high immigration".
Australia, whose population stands at just under 28 million, is importing a "city the size of Canberra" every year, Abbott said - and warned that wages, housing and infrastructure all suffer as a result.
The country has also battled its own small boat crisis, across the Torres Strait from Papua New Guinea.
And phrases like "diversity is our unity" are wreaking havoc on countries across the English-speaking world, he added.
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Australia has battled its own small boats crisis - across the Torres Strait from Papua New Guinea
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The Anglosphere countries, "wracked with doubt and guilt about their history", all suffer as a result of mass migration, Abbott continued.
His words come as Sir Keir Starmer faces down fury from his left over warning that Britain risks becoming an "island of strangers".
The Prime Minister, after laying out his White Paper migration reforms, has been praised by Reform UK and forced to endure fierce criticism from the Labour backbenches.
Starmer's press secretary addressed the fallout on Wednesday afternoon, saying: "We can't shy away from the reality that uncontrolled net migration of nearly one million a year puts our national security at risk, and successive Governments have failed to recognise that or bring down the numbers as the public want them to.
"This Government will change that and that's why we are getting to grips with it after years of inaction."
Starmer's attacks on Britain's migrant crisis have been met with praise by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick
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Alongside Reform, Starmer's attacks on Britain's migrant crisis have been met with praise by Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick.
"I think it's true. In fact, I think in some places we already are [strangers]. Aggressive levels of mass migration have made us more divided," Jenrick said.
"If you look at communities in our country, for example, central Bradford, 50 per cent of people were born outside of the United Kingdom. In central Luton, 46 per cent of residents arrived in the past decade.
"There are places like Dagenham where the white British population has fallen by almost 60 per cent in the last 25 years.
"People in many parts of our country are experiencing profound change as a result of the levels of migration that we've seen, and we've got to bring that back to the historic levels that we enjoyed as a country which enabled us to be a well-integrated and united country, rather than the one that we’re seeing today."
