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Jonathan Ashworth MP speaking to the media as he arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London
WORSENING anti-immigration rhetoric from Labour’s increasingly right-wing leadership is “silly and amoral,” a former aide to ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn stressed today.
Andrew Fisher, the party’s director of policy under Mr Corbyn between 2015 and 2019, criticised shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth after he urged firms to “invest in the workforce that they’ve got rather than going straight to international recruitment.”
The “overall tone counterposing British workers v migrant workers is wrong,” Mr Fisher told LBC Radio.
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Labour’s pop-loving front bench have snaffled up even more music tickets worth thousands apiece, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
