He achieved this by governing in the interests of a tiny right-wing coterie with a special expertise in the politics of personal destruction. Their sectarian vision inflicted grave and lasting damage not just on the Labour Party but also on Britain. The Starmer faction targeted the traditional Labour left, but reserved special venom for British Muslims.
They enjoyed a unique place in Starmer’s political universe. If politically inert, British Muslims were treated with "benign neglect", the policy regarding race relations proposed by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a 1970 memo to late US President Richard Nixon. If active, they were automatic objects of suspicion.
They were spied on, smeared and in many cases driven out of the party altogether. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Enoch Powell language In a troubling and shameful documentary released in 2022, Al Jazeera exposed Labour’s "hierarchy of racism" towards black, Asian and Muslim voters. This strategy took Labour into ugly places.
Starmer’s Labour stood down loyal and hard-working Muslim candidates such as Faiza Shaheen ahead of the 2024 election. Starmer summoned up the language of Enoch Powell, the most divisive Conservative politician of the post-war era, to warn of an "island of strangers", a phrase he later claimed to regret. At the heart of this strategy was a preoccupation with winning back so-called "hero voters" - former Labour voters who had switched to far right parties, above all Nigel Farage’s Reform party.
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