The Dean of Southwark Cathedral Challenges Carey

Ekklesia – The Dean of Southwark Cathedral has publicly challenged comments by a former Archbishop of Canterbury about migration as ‘extraordinary’ and lacking a connection between “political thinking and scriptural integrity”.

Last week, George Carey backed an attempt by anti-immigration campaigners to turn migration into a confrontational election issue, saying that migrants who accepted ‘Christian values’ should take priority.

The group of largely Conservative politicians, backed by Lord Carey, Baroness Boothroyd and Labour’s Frank Field MP, issued a call on 6 January 2010 for manifesto commitments from the main parties to reduce net immigration to the UK to 1990s levels and to except a population cap of 70 million.

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