‘Ripping apart the social fabric of Britain!’ Ben Habib tears into Labour’s Yvette Cooper over immigration speech

Former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib has launched a scathing rant on GB News about Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s insistence that Labour are “serious” on tackling immigration.

Speaking to Martin Daubney, the former co-deputy leader of Reform UK hit out at the incumbent Government and likened them to Tony Blair’s premiership.

He says the ex-PM was guilty of opening the floodgates to migrants, and thinks the new incarnation of Labour is set to do the same.

“It was Tony Blair who laid the foundations for mass migration, he threw open the borders”, he said.

“He was the one who was pro-freedom of movement and bought into the European Union (EU) movement.

“He took down our borders and successive governments have compounded that mistake. David Cameron realised the problem and said he would take immigration back, he didn’t. He was the heir to Blair and now Labour are in with the same agenda.

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“They think that with mass migration, ‘the more people the greater the GDP, to hell with productivity or GDP per capita, to hell with the undermining of British workers’ ability to get a decent wage, to hell with the burden on the public sector, we’re going to continue with this project’.

“It’s going to just get worse under Labour. It’s ripping apart the social fabric in our country.”

Speaking at the Labour Party’s annual conference, Cooper insisted disorder and violence will not detract from the “serious debate” on immigration.

She hit out at the Conservatives, saying they are becoming “right-wing wreckers”.

The Home Secretary condemned recent riots and disorder that broke out in parts of the country following a crazed knife attack at a Southport dance studio on July 29 that left three girls dead.

Cooper labelled the incidents “arson”, “racism” and “thuggery” before saying she was “shocked” by the response from some in “political parties on the right who once claimed to care about law and order”.

She said: “One told me how scared she was that night, how her mum switched off all the lights in the house, and told her to stay quiet and sit on the stairs as bins were set alight along her street.

“So don’t anyone tell me that was protest. Don’t tell me that was about immigration or policing or poverty.

“Plenty of people have strong views on immigration, on crime, on the NHS and more, but they don’t pick up bricks and throw them at the police. They don’t set light to buildings with people inside.

“It was arson. It was racism. It was thuggery. It was crime.”