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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
