Keir Starmer Blasts Nigel Farage's 'Racist' Plan To Deport Migrants Who Have Lived In UK For Years

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68d8f143180000f3dd5d065e.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage." data-caption="Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage" />Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/nigel-farage/">Nigel Farage’s </a>threat to deport immigrants who have lived legally in the UK for many years is “racist and immoral”, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/keir-starmer/">Keir Starmer </a>has declared.</p><p>In outspoken comments, the prime minister claimed that <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/reform-uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reform UK’s</a> policy would “rip this country apart”.</p><p>He also said Farage would “cosy up” to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/vladimir-putin/">Vladimir Putin </a>if he ever became PM.</p><p>Farage announced last week that he would scrap so-called “indefinite leave to remain” status given to millions of immigrants who have entered the UK illegally.</p><p>If they failed to meet strict new criteria on employment and earnings, they could be deported, regardless of how long they have lived in Britain.</p><p>Migration experts told HuffPost UK this could see people who have lived in the UK for decades being forcible removed from the country.</p><p>On Sunday with <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/laura-kuenssberg/">Laura Kuenssberg </a>on BBC1, Starmer was asked if it was a racist policy.</p><p>He replied: “Well, I do think that it is a racist policy. I do think it is immoral.