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Let’s defeat Boris Johnson’s divisive agenda
The NHS, social security and workers’ unity are under threat from Tory immigration policies, writes DIANE ABBOTT

IN EVERY area of policy being discussed as this election goes on, the dividing lines between Labour and the Tories are becoming clearer. 

And at the centre of them all is a fundamental divide between Labour’s vision of hope and unity, and the Tories’ politics of scapegoating and division.

To take the area of immigration policy as an example, the differences between the Conservatives and the Labour Party are strong indicators of the real distance between us and our competing visions for our futures. 

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