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  Yvette Cooper accuses Tories of borrowing language from 1970s National Front with 'go home'
  
  immigration ads
  
  Shadow Home Secretary also criticises spot checks at stations which were 'based on racial profiling'
  
  Labour Party conference: Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper reveals plan for new 'identity theft' criminal
  
  offence
  
  Theresa May under pressure to scale back crackdown on suspected illegal immigrants amid mounting criticism of
  
  'racist' spot checks
  
  Home Office may have broken the law in 'racist' spot checks on suspected illegal immigrants - and may have
  
  questioned domestic violence victims
  
  Immigration minister welcomes Labour's admission of failure over increase in migrants
  
  David Cameron's Tories are still the 'nasty party', says ex-aide Derek Laud
  
  Yvette Cooper today accused the Government of resorting to "divisive gimmicks" and borrowing the
  
  language of the extreme Right in two controversial schemes this summer against illegal immigration.
  
  The shadow Home Secretary denounced the controversial "ad vans" that urged illegal immigrants to
  
  "go home" or be deported and the spot-checks at London railway stations in districts with large ethnic
  
  minority populations.
  
  She claimed the initiatives proved the Conservatives were once again the "nasty party" and promised
  
  such schemes would not be allowed by a Labour government.
  
  Ms Cooper told the party's conference: "Unlike the Tories, we won't do ad vans sent to the areas with
  
  the highest black and minority ethnic British communities, borrowing the language of the 1970s
  
  National Front.
  
  "Those ad vans were driving past the homes and offices of families whose parents and grandparents
  
  had to endure those same slogans scrawled high in graffiti forty years ago, whose children now run local
  
  businesses, work in hospitals and schools, serve their country in our armed forces."
  
  She said it "really comes to something" when even Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence
  
  Party, protested that the Home Office had gone too far.
  
  Full story Independent.

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