Weekly survey: free movement of labour, NHS funding and All-Women Shortlists
Seven Labour MPs have called for Miliband to support restrictions on the free movement of labour within the…
Immigration
Home truths on migration
Let’s get Labour’s immigration debate back on track. Is it really true that a liberal approach to immigration…
Is Lynton Crosby destroying the Conservative Party?
At my hotel in Scotland last weekend I was served by a Russian, a Pole, and a Romanian,…
Is the Labour bubble incapable of having a grown up debate on the EU and immigration?
‘Ignored for years by a cosmopolitan, educated and progressive elite, they took a collective decision in the face…
Labour MPs write to Miliband urging limit on free movement from Europe
7 Labour MPs have written an open letter to Ed Miliband – published in the Observer today –…
A vision for the future of Britain is better than a strategy for tomorrow’s polls
“It would be much better if the foreigners be kept out.” So said Keir Hardie. This came as…
20 ways to make Britain better 4. ‘firm on immigration and firm on discrimination’
“I am not racist, but.” When someone says this in conversation for about half the population it translates…
The challenge for Labour on immigration is what to say, not how loudly to say it
For months, everybody thought it would be the Conservatives who would be panicking about UKIP. But Conservative nerves…
Alexander: We’ll not make same mistakes as Tories in dealing with UKIP threat
Douglas Alexander will today give a speech on Britain and the EU. The issue has been curiously absent…
Labour can no longer afford to match Tory rhetoric on immigration
In the heat of the 2010 election, worried that their candidate was going to lose, election agent Joseph…
