Page "Iain Duncan Smith" Paragraph 46

In July 2011 Duncan Smith said that tighter immigration controls are vital if Britain is to avoid “ losing another generation to dependency and hopelessness ”.

In a speech delivered in Spain he said that only immigrants with “ something to offer ” should be allowed into the country and that too often foreign workers purporting to be skilled take low-skilled jobs that could be occupied by British school leavers.

According to the Daily Telegraphs analysis, the speech contained a warning to David Cameron " that a ' slack ' attitude to immigration will result in the Coalition repeating the mistakes made under Labour, when the vast majority of new jobs generated before the recession were taken by immigrants ".

However, the published text of the speech does not refer to the prime minister in its comments on " seeing the situation repeat itself, with more than half of the rise in employment in the past year accounted for by foreign nationals ".