Migrant Labour

It was Labour, after all, who happily signed up to the lifting of controls over Eastern European migration and hopelessly under-estimated the number of migrants that would flock to Britain as a result.

It was Labour who, according to a former speechwriter for Tony Blair, made a secret agreement to encourage mass immigration in a deliberate attempt to change Britain’s cultural make-up wthout informing the electorate.

And it was Labour who allowed the long-term unemployed to languish in welfare ghettos while more than half of the jobs created under the Blair and Brown governments went to enterprising migrants.

It is not enough, therefore, for the Labour leader to wring his hands, admit his party was wrong and talk about the need for integration.

He has to say how he would deal with the expected increase in immigration from Romania and Bulgaria once the present controls are further relaxed. And he must also explain exactly how a Labour government would pursue a convincing policy in an area over which his predecessor effectively conceded sovereignty to Brussels.