Don’t Be Fooled – This Government Is Not In Control Of Illegal Immigration

The Home Office today (9th September) issued a press release titled, ‘For the first time, small boat migrants arriving in the UK face being detained and returned to France’. Promising title – but is it true? Hardly. In fact, the press release buries the real story – that the vast majority of these returns are […]

Small Changes, Big Results

This is a preview of Migration Watch’s free weekly newsletter. Please consider signing up to the newsletter directly, you can do so here and will receive an email copy of the newsletter every week as soon as it is released. A rare positive start to the week: in the aftermath of Migration Watch’s recent paper on the staggering […]

The Future of Student Visas

Executive summary Getting immigration under control must be the first and main priority of any new government. The problem now lies not merely in illegal immigration, which the current government has liked to make a big show of tackling, but the legal routes to entry that have allowed the immigrant population to explode and become […]

Cutting Student Visas: Bringing Migration Under Control

The numbers speak for themselves. In 2024, student visas accounted for 45% of all UK entry visas issued – the single largest route for legal migration. This surge is no accident. In 2019, ministers set a target of 600,000 international students by 2030; they hit it in 2022. Universities, free to recruit as they please […]

Home Office Horror Show

This is a preview of Migration Watch’s free weekly newsletter. Please consider signing up to the newsletter directly, you can do so here and will receive an email copy of the newsletter every week as soon as it is released. This week, the Home Office released its regular updates on asylum and immigration statistics. As expected, there’s […]

Obr Admits The Obvious

This is a preview of Migration Watch’s free weekly newsletter. Please consider signing up to the newsletter directly, you can do so here and will receive an email copy of the newsletter every week as soon as it is released. Once again, the warnings made by Migration Watch have been proved right. Recently, David Miles – a […]

Starmer’s Hokey Cokey Wheeze Makes Fools Of Us All

This is a preview of Migration Watch’s free weekly newsletter. Please consider signing up to the newsletter directly, you can do so here and will receive an email copy of the newsletter every week as soon as it is released. The pathetically limp, ‘one in, one out’, Starmer-Macron wheeze got underway this week (5th August). Not only […]

Immigration Is Changing Your Local Area – See How Your Town Has Changed

This is a preview of Migration Watch’s free weekly newsletter. Please consider signing up to the newsletter directly, you can do so here and will receive an email copy of the newsletter every week as soon as it is released. This week, the ONS released its projections for population growth in England and Wales over the last […]