Miliband outlines a firmer immigration policy with tough measures

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Labour leader Ed Miliband has outlined a firmer immigration policy with tough measures on Monday as he vowed to crack down on employers who are exploiting the migrant workers by paying them less than Britons.

During a speech at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, Mr Miliband has told that a future Labour government would introduce “fair” and “sensible” controls on immigration.

The leader of opposition party has announced plans to end “the epidemic of exploitation” by making it illegal for employers to undercut wages for migrant workers.

He has told: “When people can be exploited for low wages or endangered at work, it drags the whole system down, undercutting the pay and conditions of local workers.

“We’re serving notice on employers who bring workers here under duress or on false terms and pay them significantly lower wages.

“This new criminal offence will provide protection to everyone. It will help ensure that, when immigrants work here, they do not face exploitation themselves and rogue employers are stopped from undercutting the terms and conditions of everyone else.”

He added: “It isn’t prejudiced to worry about immigration, it is understandable.”

The Labour leader has also told that people coming to Britain should only get eligible to claim benefits after residing in the country for at least two years and that leaving the EU would be a disaster.

However, the Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Labour’s economic plan is a “massive gamble” which would add to the nation’s debt “every year for ever”.

The Conservative leader has said: “Ed Miliband is saying he will only balance part of the Government’s budget, not the whole thing like we plan.

“Our plan is about fixing the roof when the sun is shining. The alternative is about taking a massive gamble with our future.”

Mr Cameron has pledged that the Conservative government would eliminate the total budget deficit by 2018-9 and then try to build a budget surplus in case of re-election after general election 2015.

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