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Speech by Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary Thursday 7 March Speech by Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary Thursday 7 March 2013 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY INTRODUCTION. Thank you to IPPR for welcoming us today. For too long immigration has been one of those difficult subjects politicians don’t talk about, and the public worry about. Yet it is too important to our economy, our society and our future not to discuss Some say for Labour to discuss immigration is to move to the right. Not so. In fact the free market liberal right wing approach has often been to promote wide open borders – in the interests of free markets, trade, and flexible, cheap labour. Meanwhile the conservative right wing approach is to close the borders completely, with all outsiders kept out. Neither of those right wing extremes will ever work for Britain, or ever be accepted by Labour. We know we need a sensible balanced approach. It is because immigration is important that it needs to be properly controlled. It is because immigration needs public support that the impact must be properly managed so it is fair for all. And yes, we need a serious debate about how to get that right. Britain has benefited over many centuries from the amazing contributions of immigrants welcomed to our shores. New ideas, new talents and hard work from abroad have helped build our biggest companies, sustain our NHS, keep our public transport moving, win us Nobel prizes and expand our science base. Britain has always been a safe haven for people fleeing violence and persecution – and must continue to be so. Last summer the entire nation gathered behind team GB. A third of the team had parents or grandparents who came from abroad to make Britain their home. And we celebrated the strong, diverse and outward looking culture we showed off to the world. For the future, immigration is likely to be even more important. Our top companies, our Universities, and even our football teams and the Bank of England are competing in a global marketplace – dependent on recruiting the best international talent. People are trading and travelling more than ever before. When my grandfather moved from Yorkshire to Lancashire in the 40s it would have been seen as a radical thing to do. Yet when his youngest grandson got married recently in America relatives gathered from three different continents to celebrate. Millions of British jobs dependent on imports and exports, immigration has helped boost jobs and growth, and we know our children need to know about the world beyond our borders. So we know that Britain cannot – and must not – pull up the drawbridge on the outside world. But we also know that immigration needs to work for all. And right now most people in Britain think it doesn’t. Mass migration can create stresses and strains – making it harder for people to put down roots or build communities, and when resources are tight creating economic and political tensions too. Closing the door doesn’t work. But nor does having no controls at all. The pace and scale of immigration matter. Controls matter, so does the kind of migration and the rules to keep things fair. The impact of immigration matters. Immigration has to be managed so it works in the interests of Britain, and in the interests of working people. Under Ed Miliband’s leadership we’ve been holding events across the country - listening and talking about immigration in Britain. North and South, city and town. First and second generation migrants as well as families who have been in Britain for generations. Along with Shadow Immigration Minister Chris Bryant, I’ve heard from people worried about whether their children will find jobs and whether they can compete with new arrivals from abroad. We’ve heard from people who have seen rapid change in their communities worried they don’t know their neighbours any more. And we’ve also heard from people worried about jobs being lost at the local University because fewer international students have come. We’ve heard from people with many concerns about the way the immigration system works – and we need to talk about those problems. As Ed Miliband has said we know Labour got some things wrong on immigration in Government. We did tackle many of the serious problems in the asylum system we inherited after 1997. We also brought in stronger border checks. But we should have been quicker to bring in the Australian style points based system. We should have kept transitional controls for Eastern Europe And we should have looked more at the impact, and been ready to talk about problems. So we know that needs to change. We will support the Government where it introduces sensible policies. And we will point out where they are getting things wrong. But we won’t enter an arms race of rhetoric on immigration – and we hope the Prime Minister won’t either. That’s not honest, or good for Britain. Instead we need a serious debate about the benefits and challenges from immigration, and about the practical measures needed to tackle the problems. That is why I want to focus on three key areas where we can set out practical reforms today; - On tackling the unequal impact of immigration - On controls and limits - On proper enforcement and effectiveness And then I want to talk about the most complex challenge – reforms that are needed to make sure the immigration system works in a fairer way for European migration too. COMMUNITIES But let me first say something more about the importance of managing immigration for our communities, and the important speech Ed Miliband made on this before Christmas. Making immigration work for everyone means making sure we can come together as a country whatever our backgrounds, whatever our family history, race or religion, just as we did through the Olympics. It means making sure that people can come together in local communities, building common bonds, sharing British values, not living segregated lives. As Ed made clear that doesn’t mean assimilation – we are proud of Britain’s diversity. But it does mean greater integration. Locally that means fostering and building a shared community, where people don’t just tolerate each other, but build friendships, families and businesses. The modern history of Britain is the triumph of friendships across cultures and ethnicities over racism and prejudice. There are still challenges of course, but it is that sense of friendship and community that we believe we must continue to build. But none of that is possible if we don’t speak a common language. That is why we support stronger language requirements on people coming to this country and stronger requirements to learn and speak English if people are here. Better to teach people English than focus only on translation or interpreters. And we believe there should be stronger English language requirements on people who want to work in public services too. And it is why we believe in developing an integration strategy – rooted in a sense of “shared citizenship,” and in communities, housing and the workplace. It’s also why we expect people who are welcomed into Britain to work hard, obey the law, contribute to our economy and society. That’s what most people coming to this country want to do. And it is right to have clear rules and responsibilities to make sure that happens as I will set out later on. And it is because we believe in developing a One Nation approach to immigration around shared values that we also need to look at the impact of immigration, the pace of change and how we ensure the rules are followed. IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION So we need action to tackle the unequal impact of immigration on Britain. Overall migration has created jobs, increased the growth in our economy and filled vacancies where skills were short. But some of those in low paid work have seen downward pressure on wages. We’ve heard cases of some employers getting round the minimum wage by providing over priced, over crowded accommodation to migrant workers. We’ve heard of migrant workers left to sleep in barns, or crammed into caravans. Or factories that only recruit through agencies, and agencies that only use foreign staff, so local workers find it hard to get in. It’s not fair on migrant workers who are being exploited because of their desperation to find work. It’s not fair on other employers who are playing by the rules. And it’s not fair on local people who want a job with fair pay so they can support their families too. Yet the Government is doing nothing to tackle this abuse, or deliver a fairer deal. There hasn’t been a single prosecution for failing to pay the minimum wage in the last two years. Even when employers are caught abusing the system the penalties are too often pathetic. Last month 15 UK dairy farms were found guilty of using illegal labourers hired through gangmasters. The workers were housed in disgraceful accommodation previously used for animals, and paid £400- £500 less than the minimum wage each month. Yet for that abuse, they were fined only £300 each – less than they saved in a month on every illegal worker they exploited. Many of the companies actively recruiting from abroad also fail to provide training or apprenticeships here at home. So we need to act. Ed Miliband has already called for action against agencies that use only foreign workers, and stronger enforcement of the minimum wage. And we should go further. • We need stronger penalties for abuse.
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