article_snippet: The report is a response to the centre-right lobby group Bright Blue, which claims the Tories must abandon the Tories target to limit net migration to attract more black and ethnic minority voters.
article_snippet: It is ludicrous to lump diverse communities together in suggesting we all want mass immigration.
article_snippet: The admission came in a series of revelations about how Labour chronically mishandled Eastern European immigration.
article_snippet: But more than one million have travelled to the UK, attracted by wages which are significantly higher than at home – with at least half settling here in what proved one of the biggest waves of immigration in British history.
article_snippet: Sir Stephen Wall, an EU adviser between 2000 and 2004, said:
article_snippet: The remarks risk re-igniting the debate about Labour’s record on immigration – for which Ed Miliband recently apologised.
article_snippet: Last night Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of Migration Watch, told the Mail:
article_snippet: Yesterday Yesterday also emerged that former Labour Cabinet minister John Denham had written to Chancellor Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Charles Clarke in 2006 to warn the new arrivals were having a huge impact but was largely ignored.
article_snippet: former Labour Cabinet minister John Denham said that wages were being driven down by as much as 50 per cent and that A&E departments were under strain, adding: ‘On EU migration there was a catastrophic failure of the civil service machine.
article_snippet: Not backing down: Despite Mr Wall's comments, former Home Secretary David Blukett (pictured during Mr Wall's time in office) defended Labour's record, Mr Wall's is 'confident' mass migration was a good idea .
article_snippet: In a further bombshell, respected economist Paul Ormerod, writing in the Left-wing Guardian newspaper, exploded Labour’s economic case for mass migration.