UK – Migration of low-skilled workers is too high says Ed Miliband

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has claimed that migration of low-skilled workers into the UK is too high.

Miliband, riding high after a widely-praised party conference speech calling for a return to “one nation” politics, rejected the government’s immigration caps as a solution because they did not cover workers arriving from the European Union.

Instead he told the BBC’s World at One radio programme in an end-of-conference interview that tougher and better enforced employment rights would help protect both immigrants and local workers from gangmasters and other unscrupulous bosses.

“I’d like it to be the case that employers didn’t find they have vacancies they don’t believe they can fill, so what they reach for is low skill migration.”…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/04/migration-low-skilled-workers-miliband?newsfeed=true