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Furious Ed Miliband has said he will ban firms like Next from advertising jobs abroad before they are offered to British workers.

The Labour leader tore into the clothing firm - run by Tory peer and donor Lord Wolfson - after the Mirror revealed it was advertising jobs in Poland before they were offered to local workers living near its warehouse in South Yorkshire.

Hundreds of Polish workers have been bussed in on short-term, minimum wage contracts.

Mr Miliband, a South Yorkshire MP, raged: “Lord Wolfson should know it is simply unacceptable if jobs at Next are being advertised first in Poland, only in Polish, and for significantly less than they pay their permanent staff.

“Rules need to be fair so that employers do not undercut wages or shut local people out from decent job opportunities.

“And If I am Prime Minister, Labour will change the law so that such practices are illegal.”

A Daily Mirror investigation revealed Next is shipping over Polish workers to fill jobs in its warehouses before the jobs are even advertised in Britain.

The firm insists the jobs are now being advertised in the UK as well, and that there are still vacancies available.

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But speaking in the Commons, Labour frontbencher Kevin Brennan said the Tories should pay back the large sums of cash they have received from Lord Wolfson.

“Why should we be surprised that net migration is now higher than it was under Labour, given that, as we learn in the Daily Mirror, Tory donor Lord Wolfson’s company Next recruits en masse in Poland for jobs that it does not advertise in Britain?” he raged.

“Why did the Prime Minister not condemn Lord Wolfson and his company’s practices, and will he be keeping the £400,000 that Lord Wolfson has donated to the Tory party?”

The Tory Party declined to comment.