After Ukip’s new leader Paul Nuttall said he planned ‘to replace the Labour party and make Ukip the patriotic voice of working people’, Jeremy Corbyn’s party are under pressure to re-connect with their traditional working class voters.
With that in mind, Stephen Kinnock appeared on the Today programme on Tuesday to talk Labour and immigration. In an interview with Sarah Montague, the Labour MP — and the son of Neil Kinnock — began by conceding that his party had made ‘the huge error of failing to talk enough about immigration’ and have therefore allowed Ukip to ‘step into that place’. So, what is Labour’s plan of action?
While Kinnock tried to lay out his party’s strategy for dealing with immigration worries from voters, the interview didn’t go quite to plan when he revealed that he doesn’t actually think immigration needs to come down:
SK: We’ve got to show people that we in government would manage immigration.
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