Title: Frank Field: Labour and Tories will be 'broken up' by immigration
Headings: Frank Field: Labour and Tories will be 'broken up' by immigration
Frank Field: Labour and Tories will be 'broken up' by immigration
Content: Mr Field suggested that the main parties’ real moment of reckoning will come in the 2020 general election, when voters will be able to judge them on how much they did to recast Britain’s EU membership and restrict the right to free movement. “The temporary restriction of immigration must be the cornerstone of our renegotiation,” Mr Field said. “ This election will be the beginning of the break up, but it is the election after next where the electorate will have a clear view of which parties supported it and which did not.” Mr Field said that the failure of the main parties to discuss immigration had fuelled the rise of Ukip. “The denial of the issue has helped Ukip grow. It was thought that any talk about this was racist. Both parties have been responsible.” He added: “ Finally the power of political correctness over politics, thank goodness, is breaking. It is Ukip that is breaking it.”