this is the Mail article that daftpunk and crystal123 are referring to
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249797/Labour-threw-open-doors-mass-migration-secret-plot-make-mul ticultural-UK.html
Andrew Neather, a former government adviser and speech writer for Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett wrote the following article for the London Evening Standard
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23760073-dont-listen-to-the-whingers---london-needs-immigran ts.do
where he said
"But the earlier drafts I saw also included a driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.
I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended - even if this wasn't its main purpose - to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date. That seemed to me to be a manoeuvre too far.
Ministers were very nervous about the whole thing. For despite Roche's keenness to make her big speech and to be upfront, there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean, above all for Labour's core white working-class vote.
This shone through even in the published report: the "social outcomes" it talks about are solely those for immigrants.
And this first-term immigration policy got no mention among the platitudes on the subject in Labour's 1997 manifesto, headed Faster, Firmer, Fairer.
The results were dramatic. In 1995, 55,000 foreigners were granted the right to settle in the UK. By 2005 that had risen to 179,000; last year, with immigration falling thanks to the recession, it was 148,000.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of migrants have come from the new EU member states since 2004, most requiring neither visas nor permission to work or settle. The UK welcomed an estimated net 1.5 million immigrants in the decade to 2008.
Part by accident, part by design, the Government had created its longed-for immigration boom.
But ministers wouldn't talk about it. In part they probably realised the conservatism of their core voters: while ministers might have been passionately in favour of a more diverse society, it wasn't necessarily a debate they wanted to have in working men's clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland."
Neather has said that the comments were twisted out of proportion
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/26/labour-immigration-plot-andrew-neather
and the left-wing Mail Watch has supported Neather's claims
www.mailwatch.co.uk/2010/02/25/did-the-government-really-secretly-plot-to-change-the-face-of-britain /