Tuesday, 8 June 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Immigration: a late conversion
The four principal contenders for the party's leadership have conceded that Labour failed to respond to public concern about the subject
Daily Telegraph (08-Jun-2010)

PLAN TO RETURN CHILD ASYLUM SEEKERS
A £4 million "reintegration centre" is being planned in Kabul so child asylum seekers can be sent home to Afghanistan, it has...
Daily Star (08-Jun-2010)

MIGRANTS TOOK WORK AS DOLE QUEUES ROSE
HALF the jobs created under Labour were taken by immigrants who could have been refused work...
Daily Star (08-Jun-2010)

HARRIET SERGEANT: Immigration and the shameless hypocrisy of Labour's leadership contenders
Ed Balls, the former Schools Secretary, had me choking on my tea yesterday morning. He admitted in an interview that he had got it wrong over immigration.
Mail Online (08-Jun-2010)

Women cursed to life of slavery
OVER the last five years, one province in Nigeria has consistently cropped up when Irelands human trafficking problem is being addressed. Up to 100,000 of Europes 500,000 trafficking victims have been brought from the west African country and of those, anywhere between 60%-80% originate from the Edo...
Irish Examiner.com (08-Jun-2010)

On migrants, Balls 'is to right of Enoch': Tories condemn would-be Labour leader
Ed Balls has been compared to maverick right-wing MP Enoch Powell after calling for immigration to be drastically restricted. The Labour leadership candidate caused controversy by insisting that free movement across the European Union should be...
Mail Online (07-Jun-2010)

Balls 'indulging in anti-immigration rhetoric'
Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls was compared to Enoch Powell in this afternoon. Speaking in the Commons, education secretary Michael Gove attacked Balls for comments he made on immigration in a newspaper article over the...
ePolitix.com (07-Jun-2010)

Ed Balls admits immigration has affected pay
SHADOW cabinet minister Ed Balls admitted that high levels of immigration under Labour had affected the pay and conditions of "too many people". He insisted the party he hopes to lead had to acknowledge its mistakes, calling for better protection for British workers under any future European Union...
The Scotsman (07-Jun-2010)

Jury sworn in for 'sham marriage' trial
A jury has been sworn in ahead of the trial of an East Sussex vicar accused of conducting sham marriages involving illegal immigrants. The Rev Alex Brown, 61, was arrested at his home in Blomfield Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, in June last year following a joint investigation between the UK Border Agency and...
Malton & Pickering Mercury (07-Jun-2010)

Tackling Labour's debt mountain will change everyone's lives - Cameron (with video)
DAVID Cameron warned today that the Government's deficit was "even worse" than thought - and the action needed to tackle it would change everyone's way of...
Yorkshire Post (07-Jun-2010)

Ed Balls: I told Gordon Brown he was wrong over immigration
Ed Balls yesterday claimed he had warned Gordon Brown that immigration would cause Labour trouble at the election. The leadership contender said his former boss had made a "mistake" trying to brush the issue aside during the...
Mirror.co.uk (07-Jun-2010)

Illegal worker caught at town takeaway
A Chinese asylum seeker found working illegally in Devon is awaiting deportation to his...
This is Plymouth (07-Jun-2010)

Shock find in back of rock band's van four stowaways
WHEN a local punk rock band went on their Eastern European tour they came back with a lot more than they bargained for. Ben Dowling, Josh Read and Ben Waldock were having a great time until they were arrested for human...
This is Bristol (07-Jun-2010)

LABOUR'S ED BALLS SAYS: WE MESSED UP ON IMMIGRATION
LABOUR'S immigration policy which opened the door to hundreds of thousands of eastern European workers hit many Britons in the pocket and was a mistake, Ed Balls said...
Daily Express (07-Jun-2010)

Balls attacks Brown for ignoring immigration
Ed Balls, the Labour leadership contender, criticised his political mentor yesterday when he accused Gordon Brown of blundering by ignoring the immigration issue before the general...
The Independent (07-Jun-2010)

NO ONE IS FOOLED BY ED BALLS S SELF-SERVING HYPOCRISY
SHOULD we rejoice at a sinner who repents? Not in the case of Gordon Brown s long-time henchman Ed Balls. His call for Labour to admit what we got wrong reeks of hypocrisy and self-interest after all, it s not even five weeks since Balls and co were begging for re-election on the basis that they were the.
Daily Express (07-Jun-2010)

British jobs for migrant workers: Figures ridicule Labour's employment pledge | Mail Online
More than 1.1million jobs - half the total created under Labour - were taken by immigrants who could have been refused work permits, it emerged last...
The Mail On Sunday (07-Jun-2010)