Thetories' New Front Linethe Conservatives Unveiled the Central Plank of Their Election Campaign This Week, but Can a Tough Stance On Immigration Put Michael Howard's Party Ahead of Labour in the Polls?
Sunday Herald › February 01, 2005
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AS the son of a refugee, Michael Howard knew exactly which fuse he was sparking when he authorised a full-page advert in the Sunday Telegraph outlining his personal belief that there has to be a limit on the flow of immigrants into the UK.
By putting immigration at the centre of an election campaign that is now in its countdown phase, the Conservative leader hoped for two things - to gain on the government in the polls and to stop some of the core Conservative supporters peeling off to the UK Independence Party in key seats in the Midlands.See the full content of this document
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Thetories' New Front Linethe Conservatives Unveiled the Central Plank of Their Election Campaign This Week, but Can a Tough Stance On Immigration Put Michael Howard's Party Ahead of Labour in the Polls?
Those are the advantages; the risk is that he ignites latent hostility to migrants in the UK, which all polls and political parties detect, and turns it into open intolerance which would move the political debate into an arena where the extreme right wing would thrive.
It's hard to make the racist charge stick on Howard, the son of Romanian refugees who fled from Nazism, and whose grandmother was killed in Auschwitz.He knows what it is like to grow up being ...See the full content of this document
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