article_snippet: Mr Blair has pledged to ban immigrants from claiming benefits for two years and to tackle rogue employers exploiting migrant labour.
article_snippet: But Mr Blair said political leaders needed to stand up and defend freedom of movement in Europe.
article_snippet: Mr Blair said the only way to defeat Ukip and other anti-immigration parties was to expose Ukip and other anti-immigration parties 'ridiculous' plans.
article_snippet: Mr Blair said political leaders should attack Nigel Farage instead of pandering to Mr Blair party's views .
article_snippet: Mr Blair made the remarks in an interview with Trevor Philips, the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for a Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast on Thursday.
article_snippet: Mr Blair said Labour MPs should argue back against people like Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy – the infamous Labour-supporting pensioner dismissed as a 'bigot' by Gordon Brown in the run up to the 2010 election for complaining about the levels of immigration.
article_snippet: Political leaders have a 'duty' to say that UKIP's proposals to end free movement are 'ridiculous', UKIP's proposals to end free movement are 'ridiculous said.
article_snippet: UKIP's proposals to end free movement are 'ridiculous said: 'If Britain wrenched Britain out of the European Union, this idea that Nigel Farage would go off - can you imagine anything more ridiculous than the idea that Nigel Farage would negotiate a bespoke agreement between Britain and the European Union? '
article_snippet: 'If you believe in the UKIP thing then say you believe in the UKIP thing, but don't indulge you believe in the UKIP thing rhetoric, you believe in the UKIP thing sentiment around the issue, because what you do then is you effectively you give you believe in the UKIP thing a greater credibility.'