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"Labour and Conservative MPs are speaking in a more hostile way about
immigration than at almost any other time in the last century, the
Guardian
can reveal.
An unprecedented analysis of 100 years of parliamentary speeches has shown a
sharp shift to the right on the issue – with the biggest swing from positive to
negative attitudes coming in the past five years.
Experts warn that MPs from the two main parties have been trying to outdo each
other over how tough they appear on asylum and immigration since the rise of
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Rob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said
there was “a clear case in principle that what we’ve seen in the past couple of
years is a historically unprecedented dual negative shift in sentiment on
immigration”.
The following visual analysis shows how MPs’ language towards immigration today
compares with previous decades."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
