By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 07:13 EST, 16 August 2013 | UPDATED: 07:46 EST, 16 August 2013 A senior Labour politician today torn into his own party’s ‘disastrous’ record on immigration and condemned attempts to lecture high street firms about who they should employ. Keith Vaz, the chairman of the influential home affairs committee, said the roots of Britain’s problems with immigration lie in the last government’s failure get to control the borders while issuing ‘jingoistic messages’. And he ridiculed a speech by Labour’s immigration spokesman Chris Bryant for failing to provide answers to how to deal with the numbers of people moving to Britain.
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Chairman of powerful Commons committee in attack on own party
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Condemns the last government's 'disastrous' E-borders programme
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Dismisses Chris Bryant's immigration speech attacking Next and Tesco
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Warns against 'immigration arms race' which plays into far-right parties
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