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The government is censoring your right to know the truth. Never before have such frightened politicians resorted to such desperate, obvious means to hide their own failure from the people who voted them into office and who pay their salaries. As the increasingly hard-pressed public (burdened with rising energy costs

The government has failed to inform the public about whether there have been any illegal Channel crossings in boats for two whole weeks – since 26 January (see our Channel Tracking Station, sign the petitionto express concern about the boat cover up and write to your MP to say no here). From 26 January to

On 15 June 2022, the Home Secretary statedin Parliament on 15 June: ‘Over 200,000 people have used safe and legal routes to come to the UK since 2015.’ Our fact-check finds that this is true. Not including refugee family reunion (2016-22), the number of people directly resettled to the UK was 267,000.

Without transparency, democracy is impossible. Officials must not be able to get away with hiding the truth. Migration Watch UK has launched a petitionto tell the government that it must not cover up the daily arrival totals of people coming to the UK via the English Channel in boats. Instead it should continue

Although we often criticise the political class for being out of touch on immigration, a Parliamentary Committee did make a sensible statement recently which is worth putting on record. The statement was made in response to written evidencewhich we submitted. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights recently said in a report: “It is

While announcing a welcome new returns agreement with Serbia, the Home Secretary, the government claimsthat it is ‘delivering on its promise to tackle illegal immigration and the harm it causes‘. Yet illegal boat crossings are six times as high as this point last year (with over 40,000 entering since end of 2017)