Starmer has broken silence on immigration policy but electoral risks are clear

While Labour aims for as grown-up a stance as possible, the Tories are attempting to paint them as trying to unpick Brexit

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Few issues have made Labour tie itself in knots as much as immigration over the past decades.

There have been times when the party has tried to ignore the subject, and subsequent high levels of public dissatisfaction with the quadrupling of net migration during the Blair and Brown eras.