Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of "pouring gasoline" on the issue of mass migration in Britain, after the country experienced unrest with widespread protests and riots.
Both anti-immigration and anti-racist demonstrations have swarmed the country's streets following a major incident in Southport, where three young girls were killed.
In response to the riots and violence sparked by the Southport stabbings, Starmer said communities "will be safe" and hit out at "far-right thuggery" dominating the violent acts across the nation.
Starmer said of the protests: "People in this country have a right to be safe, and yet we've seen Muslim communities targeted, other minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric, so no, I won't shy away from calling it what it is - far-right thuggery."
Matt Goodwin has accused Keir Starmer of 'pouring gasoline' on the issue of mass migration in Britain
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Discussing the response to the protests from the Labour government, pollster and commentator Matt Goodwin said those in Westminster "haven't even acknowledged the wider grievances" which sparked the protesting.
Speaking to GB News reporter Steve Edginton, Goodwin explained: "I haven't heard Keir Starmer once say what he fell over himself to say after the Black Lives Matter protest.
"Keir Starmer hasn't even apologised for taking the knee. He certainly hasn't this time around said anything remotely similar to what he said during the Black Lives Matter moment."
Suggesting how Starmer should be dealing with the demonstrations, Goodwin urged the Prime Minister to condemn the "violence and disorder", but also acknowledge how Britons "no longer feel safe".
Mass protests have been sparked across the country as a result of the stabbings in Southport
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Goodwin told GB News: "He should have said 'I think violence and disorder is completely out of line, but I think it's also true that many people in this country no longer feel safe because of illegal migration and mass migration'.
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"And then he should have said that this is a reset moment for the country, and we have a choice to go in a different direction."
Criticising Labour's general approach to the issue of immigration in Britain since winning the General Election in July, Goodwin claimed that Starmer is "doing the opposite" of what needs to be done to bring numbers down.
Goodwin fumed: "Labour are putting this whole thing, mass migration, on steroids. They're pouring gasoline or petrol over the fire - that essentially is what Labour are doing.
"And unless we can really break through the uni party consensus among left and right, that's going to carry on."
Matt Goodwin told GB News that he is 'apprehensive' about the future of Britain
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Turning the discussion to how migration has affected Britain's communities, Goodwin admitted he is "apprehensive" about the future and that he "doesn't recognise" certain areas of the UK anymore.
Goodwin told Steven: "There are communities in England that basically don't look like England anymore. And I think that's where the loss of the familiar for many people becomes so existential.
"They're looking around and saying, well, it's doesn't really feel like England anymore. Suddenly it doesn't look like something that I recognise anymore.
"And if we're not able to step back and have a very mature conversation about what is it that is holding us together at the moment, then I think really we are going to experience more unrest of the kind that we've seen recently."
