Immigration and asylum
How immigration came to haunt Labour: the inside story
   New Labour failed to predict a surge in immigration – and their
   would have to find another solution to its immigration problem.
Immigration: let’s change the way we talk about it | Jonathan Freedland
   assumptions Labour made in government on immigration, it is easy to
   forget just how much immigration and asylum haunted Downing Street
   annual immigration quadrupled, and the UK population was boosted by
   The dramatic changes have left British politics ruptured. Immigration
   the 2010 election, there was a brief mass mea culpa about immigration,
     Between 1997 and 2010, net annual immigration quadrupled, and the UK
   immigration by stealth. Ukip often cites an article by Andrew Neather,
   that such a wave of immigration was not purely down to chance. But the
   Leap in immigration threatens Labour lead
   touch. “Immigration per se, but non‑European immigration [in
   immigration.’”
   headlines would sneer at chaos in Whitehall as the Immigration and
   introduction of greater immigration controls on the Eurostar in the UK
   globalisation gathered pace “immigration had suddenly become a big deal
   Portes, who now speaks regularly about the benefits of immigration as
   immigration. The result was a 73-page report, published in November
   over a secret conspiracy to increase immigration. But Blair picked up
   Barbara Roche, then the asylum and immigration minister, who had made a
   landmark speech in favour of immigration two months earlier, in
   granted to people in danger of persecution – and immigration, where
   control immigration from the EU was a relatively uncontentious issue.
   immigration from countries in central and eastern Europe that were
   not predict a dramatic increase in immigration from Europe. The
   immigration from the eastern and central European states. In February
   of immigration in Southampton, saying Whitehall was not picking up
   argued at the time that resentment of immigration would grow. “One of
   should deal with the surge in immigration.
   that in some respects Tony Blair was obsessed by immigration,
   particularly about illegal immigration and abuse of the asylum system,
   first Labour ministers to talk about immigration. Photograph: Frank
   of the first Labour ministers to open a discussion about immigration –
   been more illegal immigration, which would have had a far more negative
   years – to realise the extent to which EU immigration had reshaped
   immigration by the Tories at the 2005 general election, Brown also set
   immigration.
   issue of immigration so toxic for Labour. “Back in 2004 and all the way
   immigration. Somebody said to me recently, about the challenge Labour
   split decision – that it had to change tone on immigration, as
   about immigration between those who live in London or other big cities
   Duffy as a “bigoted woman” after she raised concerns about immigration.
   understood that concerns over immigration could only be tackled by
   as immigration.
   Ed Miliband knows immigration can be a potent issue. But he tends to
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