This would have meant Britain didn't get its protocol but would get a clause in the treaty, He tabled a clause which made clear that the measures in the new fiscal compact applied only to the eurozone and wouldn't undermine the single market or allow discrimination against the financial services sector of non-Euro states.
The report posits that the most important goals in this context are jobs, human security and the justice system, even if that comes at the expense of more ambitious goals of countering prejudice and discrimination, building the broader private sector or improving democracy.
Many of the South Asians who arrived in Britain from the 1970s onwards came to Newham because it had relatively little council housing which racial discrimination usually kept them out of and plenty of cheap private-sector housing.