Keir Starmer's sparks outrage among Welsh and Scots nationalists with migrant clampdown demand that people living in the UK speak English

Keir Starmer has travel nether onslaught from Welsh nationalists contiguous aft demanding that radical surviving successful the UK 'should talk English' successful a clampdown connected migrant numbers. 

The Prime Minister was criticised for a tweet sent retired from his idiosyncratic relationship aft helium unveiled plans to little UK nett migration numbers.

As Labour joins the Conservatives successful feeling the vigor from Nigel Farage's Reform UK successful the polls the PM said precocious nett migration figures had caused 'incalculable' harm to British nine arsenic helium acceptable retired a bid of measures aimed astatine reducing the fig of radical coming to the UK.

The plan, which includes changes to the mode quality rights laws are applied, is aimed astatine making the migration strategy 'controlled, selective and fair', Sir Keir said. 

Trying to merchantability the program connected X helium tweeted that it was 'common sense' that 'if you privation to unrecorded successful the UK, you should talk English'.

However, statistic released by the Welsh Government past twelvemonth showed that around 843,500 radical successful the state talk Welsh - some 27.4 per cent of the population.

Liz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru's person successful Westminster, said: 'The Welsh connection holds the aforesaid ineligible presumption arsenic the English connection successful Wales. 

'Labour nether Keir Starmer are forgetting astir Wales and our nation's individuality erstwhile again. Where's the communal consciousness successful devaluing our heritage?'

And galore different X users were speedy to constituent retired the contradiction successful what the PM was saying. 

It comes up of elections to the Welsh Senedd adjacent twelvemonth successful which Labour are forecast to conflict to clasp connected to power.

In a White Paper mounting retired the proposals, Sir Keir deed retired astatine the Conservatives for moving a 'one-nation experimentation successful unfastened borders' due to the fact that 'the harm it has done to our state is incalculable'. 

Among the changes helium unveiled was a higher modular of English being required crossed each migration routes, including, for the archetypal time, big dependents required to show a basal knowing of the language.

Currently determination is nary ineligible work for radical seeking naturalisation - UK citizenship - to talk English specifically. 

Under the British Nationality Act 1981 they suffice if the tin talk either Welsh oregon Scots Gaelic instead. 

However, doubts person been raised astir whether the White Paper proposals volition person a large capable interaction - arsenic it does not see immoderate targets oregon the hard yearly headdress being demanded by critics.

Nigel Farage accused the premier of being 'insincere' and insisted helium does not person the committedness to travel through.

Sir Keir was besides facing a backlash from his ain broadside - with Labour MPs swiping that helium was 'chasing the process of the Right'.

Zarah Sultana - presently suspended from the Labour benches - said: 'The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' code is sickening.

'That code fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it contiguous is simply a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives astatine risk. Shame connected you, Keir Starmer.'

And arsenic the PM was speaking astir 'proper power and management' of UK borders different load of Channel vessel arrivals were being brought ashore successful Dover.