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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has said it's "absolutely outrageous" to condemn as racist people who raise concerns about immigration.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, welcomed the comments as 鈥渞ational鈥� and said the views should have been aired a long time ago.

鈥淏ut if you think back for far too many years. What's happened is that, in a sense, the elite really have all said "It鈥檚 terrible to talk about immigration; if you do you're a racist". So they shut down the debate for many, many years,鈥� he added.