Media Reports Archive : December 2015


Migrants allowed to settle by alleging domestic abuse

Immigrants are being allowed to settle permanently in Britain on the basis of unchecked claims that they have suffered domestic abuse...

31 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Stalling UK wage growth set to revive debate over migrant workers

Up to 400,000 jobs expected to be created in 2016, but pool of skilled migrant labour will make it hard to restore pay to pre-crash levels.

30 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Guardian
More than a third of NHS doctors born abroad

Critics attack 'revolving door' immigration policies that see UK spending billions training medics who go abroad.

29 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
Foreign criminals stay in UK as Tories fail to meet their deportation pledge

Thousands of offenders are serving their sentences in British jails at the expense of taxpayers, while others are at large on the streets.

29 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Mirror
Over a million migrants and refugees have reached Europe this year, says IOM

More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced.

23 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Guardian
Illegal migrants shock as 100,000 tried to sneak into Britain in the past year

The number stopped at the border is more than double the figure for 2014.

23 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Sun
Mass migration driving down wages offered to British jobseekers

A major report by the Bank of England has found increases in immigration have reduced the pay on offer to care workers, waiting staff, and cleaners.

22 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
Migrant workers are driving down pay in low-skilled jobs

Mass migration has driven down the wages of workers in low-skilled jobs in the service industries, according to research by the Bank of England.

21 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Times
10,000 missing asylum seekers 'too difficult to find'

The government has stopped chasing 10,000 asylum seekers who have absconded within Britain because they are a 'drain on resources'.

18 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Immigration officers to check social media of applicants to root out fanatics

Background checks on migrants wanting to enter UK will include checking they have not shown extremism sympathies online.

17 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
Government admits 17,000 foreign students have applied for asylum to stay in Britain

The Government revealed that more than 17,000 foreign students have attempted to stay in Britain by seeking asylum over the last five years.

16 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Daily Express
Tunisian conman who married Brit mum caught claiming to be refugee in Calais

A Tunisian conman posed as a Syrian refugee in a bid to blag his way into the UK for 'easy money'.

15 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Sun
Electoral Commission hands Government a boost in bid to block votes for 16 year olds

The body has said that plans to extend the vote to young people for the EU referendum are not good enough.

14 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
ID cards are a good idea

We must put the security of our realm at centre stage and look again at Labour's identity card scheme.

11 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
"My family drowned": Syrian refugee on terrible cost of fleeing IS

Seven children and their mother died when a boat carrying them capsized.

10 Dec 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
EU buckles as number of migrants arriving in Germany hits 1 million

The influx is heaping pressure on European leaders as they struggle to cope with the migrant crisis.

10 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Immigration from EU into Britain is "not sustainable", says Cameron

Immigration into Britain is 'not sustainable', David Cameron warned tonight. The Prime Minister is in Romania today in his latest push for a deal...

10 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Mail Online
Migrant crisis: Germany heads for 1m asylum-seekers in 2015

Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015.

8 Dec 2015 - Media Report: BBC News
Widening benefits ban to young Britons as leverage in EU talks not ruled out

Work and pensions secretary raises possibility that ban on young migrants could be extended to UK citizens.

7 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Guardian
Half of new homes needed to cope with migrant influx

Official figures show that high levels of net migration could lead to the formation of 95,000 new households a year.

4 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
Osborne is hoodwinking us on immigration

Theresa May and voters want the influx halted but the chancellor is determined to frustrate them.

4 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Times
Border anti-terror database 'breaks down twice a week', says official report

A crucial IT system designed to stop terrorists and criminals getting into Britain is breaking down twice a week.

3 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
Government must be open with migration figures, say MPs

Senior Tory MPs today warned the Government it must be open about the true scale of migration.

3 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Evening Standard
UK immigration: Border control programme 'failing to deliver value for money'

'Gaps' have been identified in the Home Office

3 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Independent
George Osborne indicates students may be stripped from migrant numbers

Foreign students could be excluded from official migration figures, George Osborne has indicated, in a move that would see the total number of ...

2 Dec 2015 - Media Report: The Daily Telegraph
Number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe falls by a third

UN officials say the 37 per cent fall in numbers can be put down to poor weather coupled with a Turkish crackdown on people traffickers.

2 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Mail Online
Immigration rules are causing a curry crisis

Our love of Bangladeshi cuisine flew the flag for successful integration. Now it is under threat.

1 Dec 2015 - Media Report: Telegraph Online
The Government as a whole isn

Two weeks after the General Election, David Cameron chose to make immigration the subject of one of his first speeches as the Prime Minister of a...

1 Dec 2015 - Media Report: ConservativeHome

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