Conflicting stance: Ed Miliband, pictured during a speech yesterday, will today announce a 'clear, credible plan' on immigration . Ed Miliband will today claim Labour’s attitude to immigration has ‘changed’ – despite still refusing to put any upper limit on the numbers allowed in. In an audacious move, the Labour leader will insist that he offers a ‘clear, credible and concrete plan on immigration – not false promises’. He will say: ‘We will deal with people’s concerns because we have listened, we have learned and we have changed.’ But, only hours before the key election speech was due to be delivered, his own shadow home secretary refused at least four times to say Labour would put a target on net immigration. Under intense pressure during a home affairs debate on the BBC’s Daily Politics Show, Yvette Cooper would say only she wanted the number to be lower than the current 300,000. Presenter Andrew Neil had pointed out that, in office, Labour had ‘virtually opened the door’ to record migration. During Labour’s 13 years in power, the foreign-born population rocketed by 3.6million. Home Secretary Theresa May, trading blows with Ms Cooper in the debate, said: ‘The choice is clear. Back to a Labour Home Office which they admitted was not fit for purpose, or the Conservatives, who have a plan to reform free movement, cut immigration, defeat extremism and keep cutting crime.’ The Tories are fighting the election on a commitment to reduce net migration to the ‘tens of thousands’. Speaking in the Vale of Glamorgan today, Mr Miliband will claim that Labour would implement a ten-point plan for curbing immigration during its first 100 days in office. It includes recruiting an additional 1,000 border staff, banning recruitment agencies from hiring only from overseas and making it illegal for employers to undercut wages by exploiting workers. However, the Tories are likely to point out that a number of the proposals are already in the process of being implemented. They include the introduction of full exit checks to count people in and out of the country and ‘stopping those who have committed serious crimes coming to Britain’. Mr Miliband is expected to say: ‘David Cameron once promised to cut net immigration to tens of thousands – and told us to kick him out of office if he didn’t deliver. But, only hours before the key election speech was due to be delivered, his own shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured) refused at least four times to say Labour would put a target on net immigration . Union boss Len McCluskey last night hailed Ed Miliband as Britain’s next prime minister and said the country stood on the ‘brink of change’. The Unite general secretary praised Labour for a series of ‘radical’ policies, including the ‘freeze’ on energy prices, the mansion tax and the 50p income tax rate. And he praised Mr Miliband for planning to repeal ‘some of the worst anti-union’ laws with a commission headed by John Monks, the former TUC general secretary. Addressing a rally of trade unionists in London, Mr McCluskey, whose union is Labour’s biggest donor, said: ‘Our nation stands on the brink of change. ‘In ten days the people will cast their vote. They will pass their judgment on the last five years of Tory coalition, on the Labour Party and on Ed Miliband – as our leader and our next Prime Minister.’ He said Labour offered ‘something different’ and told the audience: ‘Is it radical enough? You judge for yourself.’ Labour would ‘end bogus self-employment and put a stop to the zero-hour contracts that have become a stain on our nation,’ Mr McCluskey added. ‘On tax they’re going to tackle non-doms, a 50p tax rate for those who can afford it, a mansion tax and above all tackling tax avoidance.’ He said David Cameron’s pledge to ‘finish the job’ of deficit reduction were ‘perhaps the scariest words in the English language’. Last week Mr McCluskey was caught boasting that trade unions ‘own’ the Labour Party and its policies. In the Unite magazine he wrote: ‘The Labour Party is our party, we built it, to serve us. These are our policies. They are now within our grasp.’ ‘But net migration rose to 298,000 last year, almost exactly three times higher than he promised. Nothing damages people’s faith in politics more than broken promises like that – or those he is still making today. 'I will only make promises I can keep. I won’t offer false targets or seek to exploit concerns with the politics of fear. Instead, I am offering clear, credible and concrete ways of making a real difference.’ He will add: ‘Immigration is too important an issue for our country to be abandoned by the Prime Minister so it can be exploited by Nigel Farage.’ Last week, David Cameron made a passionate plea to Ukip voters not to risk letting in a Labour government that will allow ‘a return to uncontrolled immigration’. Writing exclusively for the Daily Mail, he said he understood people’s ‘fears and worries’ about immigration. It followed a poll showing six in ten are unhappy with the Government’s record. Mr Cameron wrote: ‘Do you honestly think Ed Miliband cares about controlling immigration? No. ‘He was there the last time, remember, when net immigration increased fivefold.’ Mr Miliband has apologised for the calamitous underestimate of the number of Eastern Europeans who would arrive in Britain when the EU’s border’s expanded eastwards in 2004. But he refuses to accept that unprecedented levels of non-EU migration were a mistake. One ex-Labour adviser notoriously said the party’s aim was to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’. ■ ED Miliband has revealed that a Labour government would legalise humanist weddings. The move could lead to a clamour for other unconventional unions, including Jedi and Druid marriages, to be given the same status as traditional weddings. Mr Miliband told Pink News his government would look to give the controversial ceremonies the same status as religious and civil unions. There was widespread support for humanist marriage across Parliament during the passage of the Equal Marriage Act, including from Labour. ‘We still support the legal recognition of humanist marriages and we’ll review the law,’ said Mr Miliband. The UK’s first pagan wedding took place last month in Scotland.
Ed Miliband will announce that he has ‘clear, credible plan' on immigration .
But Yvette Cooper refused to say Labour would put target on net migration .
Shadow home secretary only said she wanted it lower than current 300,000 .
During Labour’s 13 years in power, foreign-born population rose by 3.6m .