Ed Miliband has told Sky News his political rival Nigel Farage is "not a racist", despite his controversial comments this week.
The UKIP leader has come under heavy criticism after an LBC interview in which he said he was uncomfortable with people speaking foreign languages on public transport.
He also told interviewer James O'Brien "you know the difference" between Romanian and German immigrants.
When asked whether Mr Farage was racist, Ed Miliband told Sky's Dermot Murnaghan: "Personally I don't think so.
"I think his remarks he made were deeply offensive … I think they were a racial slur but I don't think of Nigel Farage as a racist himself."
Ahead of Thursday's European election vote, Labour is trying to present itself as a party with a tougher stance on immigration.
Mr Miliband admitted that the last Labour government failed to take people's concerns seriously enough, adding: "It was our attitude that was wrong, and needed to change."
David Cameron is also talking tough on immigration ahead of the crunch vote, arguing the Conservative stance on a referendum after the next election is the right one.
He also insisted he is still focused on the target of reducing net migration to the tens of thousands - despite there being little chance of achieving it in this parliament.
He told the Murnaghan programme the Government has taken "tough action on immigration", adding: "The point of having that target is it's what I want and what the British people want.
"We are working towards it."
When asked whether it is still a target, he replied "of course" - but refused to confirm when he hopes to achieve it by.
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