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One of the things I've done since I became leader of the Labour Party | 5:46:21 | 5:46:24 | |
is understand where we got things wrong in government, | 5:46:24 | 5:46:26 | |
and changed them. | 5:46:26 | 5:46:28 | |
And one of the things we didn't get right was immigration, | 5:46:28 | 5:46:31 | |
and that's why I've got a new approach. | 5:46:31 | 5:46:33 | |
Millions of people in this country are concerned about immigration, | 5:46:33 | 5:46:36 | |
and if people are concerned about it, | 5:46:36 | 5:46:38 | |
the Labour Party I lead is going to be talking about it. | 5:46:38 | 5:46:42 | |
Britain's diversity is a source of our great strength. | 5:46:42 | 5:46:45 | |
It makes us a more successful country, | 5:46:45 | 5:46:49 | |
but people can lose out if migration isn't properly managed. | 5:46:49 | 5:46:53 | |
The pace of change can be too fast, | 5:46:53 | 5:46:55 | |
or people can see their wages undercut, | 5:46:55 | 5:46:58 | |
so it's not prejudiced when people worry about immigration. | 5:46:58 | 5:47:02 | |
It's understandable. | 5:47:02 | 5:47:04 | |
And we were wrong in the past when we dismissed people's concerns. | 5:47:04 | 5:47:10 | |
Low-skill migration has been too high and we need to bring it down. | 5:47:10 | 5:47:13 | |
That means the maximum transitional controls for new countries | 5:47:13 | 5:47:16 | |
coming in from Eastern Europe. | 5:47:16 | 5:47:18 | |
It means properly enforcing the minimum wage | 5:47:18 | 5:47:21 | |
so people aren't brought here to undercut workers already here, | 5:47:21 | 5:47:24 | |
and it means, "Let's give proper training to workers already here, | 5:47:24 | 5:47:28 | |
so that they have a fighting chance of filling the vacancies that exist." | 5:47:28 | 5:47:33 | |
There's nothing wrong in employing people from abroad, but the rules | 5:47:35 | 5:47:39 | |
need to be fair so that local people get a fair crack of the whip. | 5:47:39 | 5:47:42 | |
I met young people at the college who are learning to be car mechanics, | 5:47:42 | 5:47:46 | |
learning how to be bricklayers, | 5:47:46 | 5:47:48 | |
but they're desperate for apprenticeships, | 5:47:48 | 5:47:50 | |
they're desperate for help. | 5:47:50 | 5:47:52 | |
We need more apprenticeships | 5:47:52 | 5:47:54 | |
and we need more technical colleges like the one I'm in. | 5:47:54 | 5:47:57 | |
For recruitment agencies, some of whom do a good job, | 5:48:01 | 5:48:05 | |
they can't engage in bad practices like saying, "We're only going to employ people from abroad." | 5:48:05 | 5:48:10 | |
That's wrong, and we would change it. | 5:48:10 | 5:48:13 | |
We would say to all recruitment agencies, | 5:48:13 | 5:48:15 | |
"You can't just exclude people because they happen to be living in Britain." | 5:48:15 | 5:48:18 | |
I've come to Acton College in west London, | 5:48:22 | 5:48:25 | |
and this is the college where my dad came 70 years ago | 5:48:25 | 5:48:29 | |
after fleeing from the Nazis, and he studied English here. | 5:48:29 | 5:48:33 | |
He knew he couldn't get on in life, couldn't get on in Britain if he didn't learn English, | 5:48:35 | 5:48:40 | |
and I think everyone who comes to live and work here should learn English. | 5:48:40 | 5:48:43 | |
What was really striking to me | 5:48:51 | 5:48:53 | |
was talking to the women in the classroom about learning English. | 5:48:53 | 5:48:58 | |
They said to me overwhelmingly, | 5:48:58 | 5:49:00 | |
"Look, we've got to be able to learn English, because otherwise..." | 5:49:00 | 5:49:03 | |
as one of them said, "..how can we be part of our society?" | 5:49:03 | 5:49:06 | |
I'll make some simple changes. | 5:49:06 | 5:49:08 | |
English language teaching has been cut back in recent years, | 5:49:08 | 5:49:11 | |
but talk to the people at this college | 5:49:11 | 5:49:13 | |
and they say that's much more important | 5:49:13 | 5:49:15 | |
than some of the non-essential translation services, so we'll make | 5:49:15 | 5:49:19 | |
English language teaching a priority, and the priority it deserves to be. | 5:49:19 | 5:49:23 | |
And we'd also have a very simple rule, | 5:49:23 | 5:49:25 | |
which says that if you work in the public sector, in a job face-to-face | 5:49:25 | 5:49:29 | |
with the public, you need to be able to speak English. | 5:49:29 | 5:49:32 | |
I'm going to tell people what I believe, | 5:49:33 | 5:49:36 | |
and I believe that diversity is good for Britain, | 5:49:36 | 5:49:40 | |
but it's got to be made to work for all and not just for some. | 5:49:40 | 5:49:44 | |
And that means everybody taking responsibility, | 5:49:44 | 5:49:46 | |
everybody playing their part and contributing to the country. | 5:49:46 | 5:49:50 | |
That is what One Nation is all about, and that's the Britain I want to build. | 5:49:50 | 5:49:54 |