Secret Labour plan to increase immigration for social reasons dismissed public’s opposition as ‘racist’

Steve Doughty
UK Daily Mail
February 23rd, 2010

Labour encouraged mass immigration even though it knew that voters opposed it, Whitehall documents confirmed yesterday.

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The Government said the public disagreed with immigration because of ‘racism’ and ministers were told to try to alter public attitudes.

The thinking on immigration among Labour leaders was set down in 2000 in a document prepared for the Cabinet Office and the Home Office, but the key passages were suppressed before it was published.

The paper was finally disclosed under freedom of information rules yesterday. It showed that ministers were advised that only the ill-educated and those who had never met a migrant were opposed to immigration.

They were also told that large-scale immigration would bring increases in crime, but they concealed these concerns from the public.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 4:27 pm

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