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Leaders hit out at 'divisive' Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage has come under attack over his call for laws banning racial discrimination in employment to be scrapped, with David Cameron branding the comments "deeply concerning" and Ed Miliband calling them "wrong, divisive and dangerous".

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Farage: Employers should be allowed to 'discriminate'

Nigel Farage told a Channel 4 documentary that British employers should be allowed to choose workers on the basis of their nationality.

Video credit: Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True. Channel 4, 9pm, 19th March

In a clip from 'Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True', the Ukip leader tells ex-equalities watchdog chief Trevor Phillips:

If an employer wishes to choose, or you can use the word ‘discriminate’ if you want to, but wishes to choose to employ a British-born person, they should be allowed to do so.

– Nigel Farage

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