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Corbyn says Tories are ‘simply making up’ numbers to attack Labour's immigration stance
The Labour leader said his party will ‘commit to a fair immigration process that recognises the huge contribution made by migrant workers to this country’
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with Shadow Minister for Climate Justice Danielle Rowley, during a visit to the National Mining Museum at the former Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange

JEREMY CORBYN accused the Tories of using fictitious numbers to attack Labour’s stance on immigration as he continued his tour of Scotland today. 

Responding to Home Secretary Priti Patel’s claim that a motion passed at Labour conference to “maintain and extend free movement rights” would result in net migration of 840,000 people per year to Britain, Mr Corbyn said he had “no idea” where the figures came from. 

“I suspect they just quite simply make them up,” he said. 

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