We welcome the measures to tighten up the benefit system which are long overdue.
We do not believe the registrations scheme is enforceable any more than the work permit scheme has been. But the real weakness appears to be that the Government has no policy as to how many people we want on this overcrowded island.
Foreign immigration is already running at around 250,000 a year.
Today’s announcement will simply add to this without any
counter- balancing reduction.
A decade after the Brexit referendum, the promise to “take back control” of immigration has not been delivered, according to a major new report from the independent think tank Migration Watch UK.
In November 2025, Migration Watch UK commissioned JL Partners to conduct a nationally representative poll of 1,520 UK adults on public attitudes toward net migration
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