Keir Starmer during a press conference ahead of the publication of the government’s Immigration White Paper.

Nearly half of Brits feel like “strangers in their own country”, according to a new poll.

The findings have been published just a week after Keir Starmer provoked a furious row by saying the same thing.

The prime minister was compared to Enoch Powell after he said the UK risked becoming “an island of strangers” due to rising immigration.

Overall, half of British people feel “disconnected” from society, the research found.

However, those behind the investigation insisted that immigration is just one of the reasons behind the findings, with financial insecurity, the rising use of technology and the aftermath of the pandemic also playing a part.

The results form part of a new project on national cohesion called This Place Matters, which has been carried out by the University College London Policy Lab, Citizens UK and the More in Common think-tank.

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