Starmer has broken his silence on Labour’s immigration policy, but the electoral risks are clear

While Labour aims for as grown up a stance as possible, the Tories are attempting to paint them as trying to unpick Brexit

Few issues have seen Labour tie itself in knots as much as immigration over the past decades.

There have been times when the party has tried to ignore the subject, and subsequent high levels of public dissatisfaction with the quadrupling of net migration during the Blair and Brown eras.