David Hanson MP, Labour’s Shadow Immigration Minister, commenting on Coalition splits over Immigration, said:

“This is a staged row between Government Ministers who each want to blame the other for things that are going wrong on immigration, yet neither of them have the answers to make immigration work for Britain.

"Both the Tories and the Liberal Democrats know their immigration policies are failing to convince anyone, so they are staging a row to blame each other and differentiate before the election. The public deserve better than this. We need a calm, rational and balanced debate on immigration with real answers to the problems we face, not a contrived political row that is more about internal Coalition management than doing what is best for the country.”