06/03/2013 Party Political Broadcasts - Labour Party


06/03/2013

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One of the things I've done since I became leader of the Labour Party

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is understand where we got things wrong in government,

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and changed them.

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And one of the things we didn't get right was immigration,

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and that's why I've got a new approach.

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Millions of people in this country are concerned about immigration,

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and if people are concerned about it,

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the Labour Party I lead is going to be talking about it.

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Britain's diversity is a source of our great strength.

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It makes us a more successful country,

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but people can lose out if migration isn't properly managed.

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The pace of change can be too fast,

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or people can see their wages undercut,

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so it's not prejudiced when people worry about immigration.

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It's understandable.

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And we were wrong in the past when we dismissed people's concerns.

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Low-skill migration has been too high and we need to bring it down.

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That means the maximum transitional controls for new countries

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coming in from Eastern Europe.

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It means properly enforcing the minimum wage

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so people aren't brought here to undercut workers already here,

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and it means, "Let's give proper training to workers already here,

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so that they have a fighting chance of filling the vacancies that exist."

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There's nothing wrong in employing people from abroad, but the rules

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need to be fair so that local people get a fair crack of the whip.

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I met young people at the college who are learning to be car mechanics,

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learning how to be bricklayers,

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but they're desperate for apprenticeships,

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they're desperate for help.

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We need more apprenticeships

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and we need more technical colleges like the one I'm in.

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For recruitment agencies, some of whom do a good job,

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they can't engage in bad practices like saying, "We're only going to employ people from abroad."

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That's wrong, and we would change it.

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We would say to all recruitment agencies,

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"You can't just exclude people because they happen to be living in Britain."

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I've come to Acton College in west London,

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and this is the college where my dad came 70 years ago

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after fleeing from the Nazis, and he studied English here.

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He knew he couldn't get on in life, couldn't get on in Britain if he didn't learn English,

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and I think everyone who comes to live and work here should learn English.

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What was really striking to me

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was talking to the women in the classroom about learning English.

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They said to me overwhelmingly,

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"Look, we've got to be able to learn English, because otherwise..."

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as one of them said, "..how can we be part of our society?"

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I'll make some simple changes.

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English language teaching has been cut back in recent years,

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but talk to the people at this college

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and they say that's much more important

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than some of the non-essential translation services, so we'll make

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English language teaching a priority, and the priority it deserves to be.

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And we'd also have a very simple rule,

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which says that if you work in the public sector, in a job face-to-face

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with the public, you need to be able to speak English.

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I'm going to tell people what I believe,

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and I believe that diversity is good for Britain,

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but it's got to be made to work for all and not just for some.

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And that means everybody taking responsibility,

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everybody playing their part and contributing to the country.

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That is what One Nation is all about, and that's the Britain I want to build.

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