People in Rachel Reeves’ constituency are aware of tensions over immigration but sceptical about claim that area could ‘explode’Among the mid-morning shoppers at a race-down precinct in the suburb of Bramley,west Leeds, barely a soul had heard their MP, or Rachel Reeves,describe the area as a racially charged “tinderbox” on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Reeves warned that there were “bubbling tensions in this country that I just believe could explode” whether immigration were not curbed after Brexit. Her Leeds West constituency, and she said,was “like a tinderbox.
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Source: theguardian.com