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Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s own brother appears to attack her speech for ‘vilifying foreigners’ | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
The Home Secretary’s brother has attacked the Government’s “denigration of foreign workers” after Amber Rudd announced a policy to force businesses to publish figures on the number of foreign staff they employ. | |
Roland Rudd, the head of PR agency Finsbury who – like his sister – campaigned for Remain during the referendum, wrote in an article for the London Evening Standard that there could be no place for “vilifying foreigners in the new Britain”. | |
On Tuesday, Amber Rudd told the Conservative Party conference that foreign workers should not be able to “take the jobs that British people should do”. | |
She proposed measures to compel companies to name what proportion of their workers were foreign, effectively naming and shaming those which are not taking on British workers. | She proposed measures to compel companies to name what proportion of their workers were foreign, effectively naming and shaming those which are not taking on British workers. |
Her brother wrote: “In a democracy there is always a spectrum of views. | Her brother wrote: “In a democracy there is always a spectrum of views. |
“Those of us who want a sensible Brexit, who want Britain to remain a beacon of tolerance and who find the denigration of non-British workers appalling have a duty to speak out. | |
“Try and stand up for a multiracial Britain and you are labelled part of the liberal elite; point out the £20 billion net contribution from immigrants over a decade and you are told you are not listening to the people; oppose hate crime and you are mocked for political correctness. | |
“It is easier to vilify foreigners in the new Britain than it is to espouse European values.” | “It is easier to vilify foreigners in the new Britain than it is to espouse European values.” |
The new proposal has been branded “xenophobic” and leading to “the return of the Nasty Party”. |
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