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Explore our latest publications on immigration and asylum policies. Stay informed with well-researched insights.
Does Britain Think Immigration Is Too High?
Polling is central to modern politics. For governments, it is a means of testing public reaction to policies. More and more nowadays it is done with focus groups to test the popularity or otherwise of…
Learn MoreResponding To Labour Shortages – Is More Immigration The Answer?
Since leaving the European Union and emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic, the topic of workforce immigration has rarely been far from the headlines. Whether it is increasing the number of agricultural workers, nurses or hospitality staff…
Learn MoreWhat’s The News On Modern Slavery Abuse Among Asylum Seekers?
In recent years, the amount of modern slavery claims being made by asylum seekers has risen substantially. In 2022, claims reached a high of 17,000 of which just a quarter were for sole UK nationals. Earlier this…
Learn MoreImmigration Rises To 1.3 Million: Visa Grants For Foreigners To Live Here Double In 3 Years
The number of visa grants for people to come and live in the UK has more than doubled from over half a million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022 (see the full Home Office bulletinand our press…
Learn MoreNearly 7 In 10 Of Those Coming In Boats Are Young Men As 500% Increase In Afghan Dinghy Arrivals Helps Drive Surging Illegal Immigration
The figures show that 54,090 people attempted to enter illegally in 2022, and 45,755 of these by small boat. The boat figures are an increase of 1.6 times on the number of people that arrived…
Learn MoreCensus Reveals The Massive Impact Of Immigration On Our Society
Summary: In the last 20 years the population of England and Wales has increased by around eight million entirely as a result of immigration. This has meant huge population shifts and churn in different areas of…
Learn MoreNet Level Of Immigration Is Now *half A Million* Per Year – An All-time Record
Net migration for the year to June 2022 is estimated by the ONS to be 504,000 This of course is an all-time record level of net migration. The previous record was a third of a million…
Learn More£220 Million Of Your Money Handed To France Since Boats Crisis Began – And Problem Just Gets Worse
The government has signed a new £63 million agreement with France that will involve the UK paying for 40 per cent more French officers to patrol their own beaches, British officers stationed in French control…
Learn MoreHow Uncontrolled Immigration Could Mean Electoral Defeat For The Conservatives
New polling backs up what Migration Watch UK found in the summer—that voters want to see a reduction in immigration and the government will lose its Red Wall support if action is not taken to control…
Learn MoreNothing Is Less True Than The Claim We Are A Nation Of Migrants
There is a very persistent myth about Britain, that we are ‘a nation of immigrants.’ Ed West in his excellent book The Diversity Illusion, debunks this claim comprehensively. Below is a list of the key points West tackles on this issue and his reasons for saying this claim is untrue.
Immigration And Population Decline
A recent article in the Guardian newspaper claimed that an emerging ‘crisis’ was being seen as ‘ageing populations place shrinking economies under ever greater strain’, adducing as evidence increasing abandonment of villages in places as far apart as Spain and Japan. This prompted responses such as this, perhaps to be expected in the Guardian, that more
The Government Has Opened Up The Risk Of Rapid Inflows Of Millions Of People With No Ability To Control The Numbers
The UK pledge to grant 5.4 million people the right to come to the UK and settle permanently in the midst of a global health crisis is the opposite of ‘taking back control’ as Ministers pledged. The government have essentially abandoned control over access to long-term immigration for 5.4 million
Why Do We Need So Many More Houses? Immigration
By Alp MehmetChairman of Migration Watch UKConservative Woman, January 2, 2021 The thirty years after the Second World War saw millions of housing units built. Bombed-out, poor and temporary homes (prefabs) were replaced by units more fit for purpose. By the end of the 1950s, around 15 million units were
Immigration And Demand For Homes In England
Summary 1. After the Covid crisis, net migration levels could well revert to the high levels witnessed over the past five years, or even surpass them, given the range of additional uncapped routes being opened under the new Points Based System. If so, just over half of extra homes needed in England
What’s The Point Of Taking Back Control Of Immigration If We Don’t Reduce It?
By Lord GreenPresident of Migration Watch UKConservative Home, December 27, 2020 The Trade Agreement announced on Christmas Eve has at last given us the very welcome opportunity to take back control of our laws, our trade, and our future. The government is to be warmly congratulated. Sadly, however, immigration has still