Our Amazing Hypocrisy On Immigration

New Statesman (April 05, 2004)

Author: Anonymous
Vol: 17, Issue: 801

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The latest tangle over immigration is a telling illustration of new Labour's two greatest weaknesses: its anxiety to please business and its wish simultaneously to placate popular prejudice as expressed mainly by the Daily Mail and the Sun. On the one hand, employers, particularly in the southeast, are screaming for labour, the cheaper the better.

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Our Amazing Hypocrisy On Immigration

The latest tangle over immigration is a telling illustration of new Labour's two greatest weaknesses: its anxiety to please business and its wish simultaneously to placate popular prejudice as expressed mainly by the Daily Mail and the Sun....

See the full content of this document