THE Green Party would scrap controversial immigration detention centres, its Australian-born leader Natalie Bennett said yesterday.

Ms Bennett vowed her party would “unapologetically stand up for migrants” in a personal speech at a Kurdish community centre in north London.

As someone who moved to Britain, she said she was “here to take a stand against those who seek to demonise me and those like me for me for making that choice.”

As well as ending detention, Ms Bennett said that the Greens would lift a ban on British citizens with salaries below £18,600 applying for spousal visas.

And she accused Labour of showing a “lack of backbone” by making immigration one of its key campaign themes.
“Rather than standing up to Nigel Farage and his chums, Labour wilted,” she said.

Ms Bennett will spend today in Cambridge before heading to Green target seat Bristol West for the final day of the campaign.