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It’s been exactly one year since Labour won the 2024 General Election. Given that “immigration and asylum” was the second-most important issue for voters at the time – and by far the most important issue for Conservative and Reform voters – how has Labour performed on this issue? More specifically, how has

The regional fallouts of the conflict engulfing Iran are yet to reveal themselves, but one catastrophic consequence is definitely not in doubt: Britain’s migration crisis will further deepen. Iran is already the nation from which many channel crossers have come, at more than 25,000 by the end of 2024. This

Can the government stop the boats? Speaking in Dover today, the Prime Minister gave an update on his pledge to stop small boats crossing the English Channel. Illegal crossings, he said, are down 20 per cent while illegal migration into Europe has risen by 30 per cent. French authorities have also

This week the government disclosed that in 2023 Indians have been the second largest group of people illegally crossing the English Channel in small boats, making up 18 per cent of all crossings. Although the increase in Indians making the crossings had been reported earlier this year, that this remains the case several months

It emerged in the Daily Mail recently that among those who illegally entered the UK in a dinghy last year were 19 suspected terrorists, several of whom are thought to have been members of the Islamic State group. Despite the fact that several of these individuals were already under ‘active

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 policies and pronouncements. Immigration is an area that is particularly tightly monitored by pollsters,  because it