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New statistics released by the Home Officereveal just how costly, overwhelmed and abused our asylum system has become as illegal boat crossings have skyrocketed. More than 60,000 have arrived illegally by boat since January 2018 and almost all claim asylum. Here are some takeaways: This year sees the highest asylum claims

The Home Office released visa, asylum and immigration statisticspertaining to the year to June 2022. These reveal a large increase in immigration since before the pandemic, with an astonishing 1.1 million visas granted for people to come and live in the UK (a rise of more than half a million when compared with the

Below is the text of an open letter sent to both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, highlighting the support for reducing overall immigration among the British public-as revealed by our recent polling data. The Right Hon Elizabeth Truss MP The Right Hon Rishi Sunak MP 26 July 2022 Dear Ms Truss/Mr

New polling conducted by Migration Watch UK demonstrates significant public support for reducing immigration into Britain. Despite claims in recent years that after Brexit the British public are now softer on immigration and its impact, the new Deltapoll findings illustrate serious concern among voters about the handling of immigration by

Some of the first results to be published from Census 2021 show that the population of England and Wales grew from 56 million to 59.5 million, or by 3.5 million between 2011 and 2021 – that’s a rise of 350,000 per year. See the full ONS bulletin here and the full data here.

Collapsing enforcement and the present border chaos threatens the safety of families in the UK. This is because, in the midst of huge abuse of human rights law, removals of high harm individuals have plummeted. New government statistics show that enforced removals of the highest harm immigration offenders and foreign