article_snippet.sent: Presenter Andrew Neil had pointed out that, in office, Labour had ‘virtually opened the door’ to record migration.
article_snippet.sent: Back to a Labour Home Office which they admitted was not fit for purpose, or the Conservatives, who have a plan to reform free movement, cut immigration, defeat extremism and keep cutting crime.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories are fighting the election on a commitment to reduce net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories include the introduction of full exit checks to count people in and out of the country and ‘stopping those who have committed serious crimes coming to Britain’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Miliband is expected to say: ‘David Cameron once promised to cut net immigration to tens of thousands – and told us to kick David Cameron out of office if David Cameron didn’t deliver.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Mr Miliband said David Cameron’s pledge to ‘finish the job’ of deficit reduction were ‘perhaps the scariest words in the English language’.
article_snippet.sent: Immigration is too important an issue for our country to be abandoned by the Prime Minister so it can be exploited by Nigel Farage.
article_snippet.sent: Last week, David Cameron made a passionate plea to Ukip voters not to risk letting in a Labour government that will allow ‘a return to uncontrolled immigration’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘fears and worries’ about immigration.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron wrote: ‘Do you honestly think Ed Miliband cares about controlling immigration?
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband was there the last time, remember, when net immigration increased fivefold.
article_snippet.sent: Ed Miliband has apologised for the calamitous underestimate of the number of Eastern Europeans who would arrive in Britain when the EU’s border’s expanded eastwards in 2004.
article_snippet.sent: But Ed Miliband refuses to accept that unprecedented levels of non-EU migration were a mistake.