Govt row over immigrant ads
A advertising campaign telling illegal immigrants to “go home or face arrest” has caused a row within the Coalition. The poster vans are part of a pilot scheme in several London boroughs.
Cable: Government immigrant ads 'stupid and offensive'
Vince Cable has attacked Tory colleagues for launching a "stupid and offensive" advertising campaign targeting illegal immigrants.
The Business Secretary said Immigration Minister Mark Harper's decision to send vans bearing the message "go home, or you'll be picked up and deported" round London was designed to create fear among the public.
Mr Cable told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show the Liberal Democrats had not been consulted about the van campaign. "It was stupid and offensive. I think it is very unlikely it will continue."
He questioned whether illegal immigrants would have enough of a "sophisticated grasp of English" to be able to read the posters on the vans at a distance.
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