Nigel Farage showed 'shades of Enoch Powell' in EU migration comments, Chuka Umunna says

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nigel Farage has shown “shades of Enoch Powell” in recent comments warning that anger over EU migration could lead to violence on the streets, senior Labour MP Chuka Umunna has said. Speaking to the BBC this week about the prospects for the UK after the EU referendum, the UKIP leader said: “I think it’s legitimate to say that if people feel they have lost control completely – and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the European Union – and if people feel that voting doesn’t change anything, then violence is the next step. “I find it difficult to contemplate it happening here, but nothing is impossible.” open image in gallery Enoch Powell speaking in the pulpit of the church of St Mary Le Bow, London, in 1977 Mr Umunna, the former Shadow Business Secretary, said Mr Farage was “letting his true colours show with shades of Enoch Powell in his latest outburst.” open image in gallery Former shadow Business secretary Chuka Ummuna believes that the problems with gang culture are worsening “He is losing the argument and paving the way for defeat but it is the height of irresponsibility to suggest there will be violence on the streets if he doesn’t get his own narrow-minded way,” he said. “Anyone who experienced the London riots will be disgusted to hear that Nigel Farage thinks violence is the ‘next step’ if he cannot win the argument.” Baroness Lawrence also criticised Mr Farage for comments earlier this week, in which he condemned the former Labour government for “rubbing our noses in diversity”.