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November 3, 2009

Minister admits: we got it wrong on immigrationRichard Ford, Home Correspondent

Illegal immigrants about to board a train near Calais: Alan Johnson is the first Home Secretary to admit Labour had made mistakes on immigration
The Home Secretary admitted yesterday that the Government had made mistakes in its handling of immigration and had overreacted to the 7/7 bombings in London.

In his first speech on the subject, Alan Johnson said that ministers had ignored immigration problems and the growing pressure on jobs and services in parts of Britain. Some communities had legitimate concerns because they had been particularly affected.

Mr Johnson did not directly address the rise of the British National Party, but his comments came 12 days after its leader Nick Griffin made his landmark appearance on Question Time thanks to the party’s success in the European elections. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, struggled to defend the Government’s record on immigration during the television debate.

Mr Johnson is the first Labour Home Secretary to admit mistakes on immigration. He said his predecessors had not addressed problems that led to huge backlogs of asylum seekers and foreign national prisoners. It emerged in 2006 that there were up to 450,000 “legacy cases” that officials are now working through.


Labour had been “maladroit” in its handling of the issue but ending immigration altogether was “no sensible argument”. The Home Secretary also conceded that some counter-terror proposals made after the July 7 attacks had gone too far. “That probably was an understandable feeling — that we should be more draconian. But perhaps that wasn’t the right way to go,” he said.

The Prime Minister’s spokesman said that Mr Brown had not reviewed the comments in detail or in the context that they were made.

Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, said: “What we need is a tightly controlled system with much lower levels of immigration and an annual cap on the number of people who come to live and work here.”


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