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Managed Migration

No, I do not. That is not simply because of the tone, which was unnecessarily hectoring and verged on racist in some quarters—I accept, however, that that applied to some areas more than others—but because the substance was wrong. The hon. Lady has been an MP for 10 months, so I find it hard to accept that she has hordes of constituents who have been waiting years for indefinite leave to remain. I praise her, however, along with a few of her colleagues, for having the intelligence to resist the nasty hectoring campaign that many members of her party ran nationally. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister rightly described Conservative policy at the election as incoherent babble. He said it was a deliberate attempt to exploit people’s fears—that is true, although perhaps not in Putney—and to suggest that for reasons of political correctness those in power do not care to deal with the issue. That is almost the exact opposite of the rhetorical question posed by the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley). The Conservatives deliberately suggested that there were subliminal ideological reasons why, at the election, the Government and the Labour party did not want to do anything about immigration, which was untrammelled, uncontrolled and relentless: it was suggested that that resulted from our new Labour, ideological, Islington-based position. It is, however, utterly wrong—in fact, it is as wrong as the opposite suggestion.