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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with Shadow Minister for Climate Justice Danielle Rowley, during a visit to the National Mining Museum at the former Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange
JEREMY CORBYN accused the Tories of using fictitious numbers to attack Labour’s stance on immigration as he continued his tour of Scotland today.
Responding to Home Secretary Priti Patel’s claim that a motion passed at Labour conference to “maintain and extend free movement rights” would result in net migration of 840,000 people per year to Britain, Mr Corbyn said he had “no idea” where the figures came from.
“I suspect they just quite simply make them up,” he said.
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues that Labour’s proposals contained in the recent white paper won’t actually bring down immigration numbers or win support from Reform voters — but they will succeed in making politics more nasty and poisonous
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
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
