Migrant failure ‘could lead to British Trump’

VOTERS could elect a ‘ Donald Trump-style’ leader in Britain unless mainstream politicians deal with the impact of mass immigration, a senior Labour MP warns today.

Chuka Umunna says the failure to tackle ethnic divisions was creating widening ‘cracks in our communities’.

The former shadow cabinet minister warned that Britain is ‘at a crossroads’ and even suggested the country could see a repeat of the race riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford 15 years ago unless action is taken to reduce ethnic segregation.

The All-Party Group on Social Inclusion will today publish a report on the lessons of the Cantle inquiry into the 2001 race riots.

Speaking ahead of the publication, Mr Umunna said the immigration debate was too focused on numbers, with ‘too little attention paid to how we integrate people once they settle here’.

He added: ‘Fifteen years after the Cantle Report, lessons have still to be learnt and cracks in our communities have continued to grow.

‘Britain has become a more ethnically segregated nation as immigration has risen over the last decades.

‘We’re now at a crossroads. If we don’t take action to bridge the divides in our communities, they will grow into gulfs and there is a real risk the British people could respond, not by seeking to solve our problems together, but by seeking to blame one another and look to Donald Trump-style solutions.’

The report by former council chief executive Ted Cantle into the 2001 riots – when Asian youths staged pitched battles with the police – identified segregation as a major cause.