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WB as Immigration Minister. election campaign lifts off
-Back page and page 2 Stop the Co welcome are here MITTEE COAS No refugee, migrant or asylum seeker, no anti-racist campaigner will stir to defend the record of Beverley Hughes
In office, Hughes along with the rest of her new Labour colleagues pandered to the racist media and showed little or no compassion for those fleeing war, persecution and poverty across the globe. Along with her boss David Blunkett, Hughes has presided over an
Andrew Wiard Education: Now it's the survival of the fattest NCRM. increase in immigration detention (see p7) and a stepping up of deportations.
New Labour and Blair himself have responded to Tory baying on the question of immigration by adopting their agenda, as we have argued many times in Socialist Resistance. But now Hughes has been forced to resign by the right, showing yet again that this strategy is not only immoral but self-defeating
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