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People in Guildford don’t vote BNP
Yesterday Ed Miliband made another step in reframing Labour's position on immigration. With Ukip surging in the polls and likely to come first in next year's European elections, and the media already beginning their racist attacks on Bulgarians and Romanians, Labour has a choice. They can follow the Conservatives in drifting to the right in the hope of choking off Ukip support or they can offer a positive, more progressive alternative that deals with concerns over immigration but in a wider context.
Tony Blair compares SNP to Ukip
Tony Blair has launched a scathing attack on those advocating an independent Scotland, comparing them to Ukip as a movement that seeks to pin the blame for the problems of the world on someone else.
Book review: The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by AC Grayling
Carl Packman reviews AC Grayling's The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by AC Grayling.
This week’s most read
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
The Week in Washington: Cuts take effect, action on guns delayed and more
Larry Smith gives the lowdown on who's up and who's down this week across the pond.
After Eastleigh: It’s time for progressives to argue the case for migration
Over the last two weeks in Eastleigh, UKIP forced home the message that uncontrolled immigration is an inevitable consequence of the UK’s membership of the EU. It's time for progressives to leave the bunker, stop sounding weak, introspective and contrite and get out there and argue the case for migration.