Labour has never had an open-door immigration policy | Diane Abbott

Whether it’s Irish labour or the Windrush generation, migration has always been driven by economic necessityOne of the great myths of public life in the UK is that we are not allowed to talk about immigration, yet an objective observer might feel we talk about little else. At the heart of the debate, there has been a pervasive “post-truth” narrative that Labour governments operated an open-door immigration policy – one that they maintain in opposition today. Related: How