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Any clampdown on immigration is guaranteed to bring howls of disapproval from Labour.  Diane Abbott is one of the party's greatest exponents of open door migration and once scoffed at a suggestion that Labour would put controls on it.  Last week she did the media rounds to make clear the party's opposition to the government's points-based system.

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