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LABOUR’S Ed Miliband tried to head off a challenge from right-wing parties yesterday with the public launch of a “fair” immigration policy drive in the seaside town of Great Yarmouth.
The opposition leader struck a different tone from boss-friendly Ukip’s anti-immigrant rhetoric by pledging a clampdown on rogue employers via new powers to prosecute over low wages and exploitation.
Undercutting local workers’ pay or conditions by exploiting migrant workers would become a criminal offence under a Labour government, he said.
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
