Keir Starmer urges public to reclaim English flag from Southport rioters

Keir Starmer urges public to 'reclaim' English flag from Southport riotersGood Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00The pride we have in our country, our values and our history.

00:04And I do understand, you know, there's a sort of fight over the flag, if you like.

00:09But that's why we've got to reclaim it, because it belongs to all of us.

00:13And you talked about the Southport rioters using the flag

00:17when they were committing horrible criminal acts.

00:20But I think there will be people watching this who would never turn to violence like that,

00:24but are English and are proud to be English and love their country like you do,

00:27but feel that it has changed beyond recognition because of mass immigration,

00:32and feel they don't know what Englishness is anymore.

00:35Can you understand that?

00:37Oh, I do understand that.

00:38And I completely understand the sense of insecurity sometimes people feel

00:44as things change around them.

00:46But that is another reason to assert our own values, our own traditions,

00:52our own places of beauty in England.

00:55And it's our flag. It represents our country.