More Revelations

As Jack Straw moves to deny that Labour deliberately opened the door to immigration to spite the Right, we receive more revelations about their farcical immigration policy:

Possible links between mass immigration and some crimes were censored from a keynote government report, the Standard can reveal.

This report, Migration, A Social and Economic Analysis, happened to have been published in a general election year, 2001. It wasn't just links between immigration and crime that were cut, however. The report also attacked Britain's "positively shameful" record towards the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, and claimed racism towards black racism has come "not just from extremists or working class communities, but from politicians and policy-makers at the highest level".

But it's the cynicism of cutting the paragraphs on the negatives of Government policy that arguably rightly receive the most attention.

The missing section warned: "Migration has opened up new opportunities for organised crime." However, it said migrants were not more likely to be criminals, despite foreign nationals forming a higher proportion of the prison population than of the general population. The disparity, it stressed, was almost entirely caused by foreign visitors held for drugs smuggling at ports and airports, and nothing to do with settled migrants.

It reported: "There is emerging evidence that the circumstances in which asylum seekers are living is leading to criminal offences, including fights and begging."