Marchers who took to the streets in the Unite the Kingdom rally have been dubbed the ‘heirs to skinheads and Paki-bashers’ by Shabana Mahmood.
The Home Secretary, who was born in Birmingham to parents of Pakistani descent, told Labour party conference that in some demonstrators’ view she ‘has no place’ in Britain.
She opened her keynote speech with an analysis of the rally which saw 150,000 people take to the streets in central London on September 13.
‘While not everyone chanted racist slogans, some did, clear that in their view of this country, I have no place,’ said the Home Secretary.
‘It would be easy to dismiss this as nothing but an angry minority – heirs to the skinheads and Paki-bashers of old.
‘And make no mistake, some were.
‘But to dismiss what happened that day would be to ignore something bigger, something broader, that is happening across this country.’
Ms Mahmood said some Britons were being driven towards more extreme views because they feel the country is ‘spinning out of control’.
Traditional patriotism, in some cases, is turning into ‘something more like ethno-nationalism, which struggles to accept that someone who looks like me, and has a faith like mine, can truly be English or British’, she said.
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Ms Mahmood said working class communities will turn away from Labour and ‘seek solace in the false promises of Nigel Farage’ if the Government fails to act on concerns over immigration.
‘They will turn towards something smaller, something narrower, something less welcoming, and the division within this country will grow.
‘So the challenge we now face is this, not just to win the next election but to keep the country together and to fight for our belief in a greater Britain, not a littler England.’
It came after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described a policy set out by Mr Farage’s Reform party as ‘racist’.
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