Ed Miliband’s position on immigration doesn’t inspire confidence

What did he say? Did Ed M really admit that the Labour Party didn’t realise that immigration would have a different impact on different classes? Yes, actually, he did. In an interview with Martha Kearney, he admitted that Labour in government didn’t realise that immigration was a class issue. Which really makes you wonder what the party is good for.

Remember, what we are talking about is 3.8 million individuals coming to Britain in the course of ten years ...  net foreign migration, mark you, and not counting illegal migration. If Labour couldn’t work out the impact of an influx of nearly four million people in a decade, most of them from outside the EU, on working class jobs, on community cohesion, on house prices and on services, then there are just two possibilities.