Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his ‘Island of Strangers’ speech.
But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism?
And how did he shape the far right’s existential struggle to understand Britain once it ceased to be a formal empire?
Eleanor Penny spoke to Kojo Koram about how to understand his influence in a renewed moment of national decline, and how his ideas poisoned the very political waters we swim in.