Sir Nicholas and Frank Field (Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead) Chair the Cross Party Group on Balanced Migration, write...

Sir, David Aaronovitch’s article “Immigration — it’s all about prejudice, not jobs”, (Nov 6) is disturbing. This is by no means the first time that he has suggested that the concerns of nearly 75 per cent of the public are driven by prejudice. It seems that anyone who wishes to preserve the nature of the society in which they grew up, and for which many of their fathers and forefathers gave their lives, is to be sneered at as a bigot.