Gillian duffy
Ed Miliband and Britain’s anti-immigrant backlash
The politics behind Ed Miliband’s long-awaited speech on immigration are pretty straightforward. Polling – and Labour activists’ experience on the doorstep – suggest that immigration remains a big concern for large numbers of working-class voters. Unless Labour engages with a conversation going on in ‘every kitchen’, as Ed Miliband puts it, the [...]
By Owen Jones | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 6:42 pm
Which is the party of awful bigots?
Only one of the three main UK political parties had NOTHING positive to say about the contribution of immigrants to the UK in their manifestos this election.
Can you match the paragraph with the party?
“Britain has always been an open, welcoming country, and thousands of businesses, schools and hospitals in many parts of the country rely [...]
By Stephen Foley | Eagle Eye, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 28 April 2010 at 10:22 pm
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