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Mid-term Review: Comment By Vice Chair
Alp Mehmet said: ‘The mid term review is incredibly mealy mouthed about immigration. It speaks only of “preventing a large increase in overall immigration.” Doubtless at Lib Dem insistence and despite the results of the census, the strength of the public’s desire to get immigration down to acceptable levels has been
Social Housing in London: What is the True Story? | Migration Watch UK
There have long been suspicions that the public have not been told the full story about the impact of immigration on the queues for social housing. Research by Migrationwatch into the situation in London, published today, confirms that there are important questions to be answered. It finds that less than
Judicial Review – Proposals For Reform
The Ministry of Justice has recently published aconsultation paper on this subject. Theneed for reform arises because of the enormous growth in numbers ofapplications for Judicial Review (JR) and the paper acknowledges in paragraph24 that the main area of growth has been in immigration and asylum cases. In 2000 there
MW285 : Bill of Rights – Commission’s Report | Migration Watch UK
The Commission set up in 2011 to report on the possibility of a UK Bill of Rights published its report yesterday, 18 December. It has not attracted much attention from the media. The report itself runs to 282 pages, which I do not claim to have read in full. I
Sir Andrew Green’s Letter In The Daily Telegraph
Curbing Immigration Sir, I am most grateful for your generousendorsement of Migrationwatch in today’s editorial (“Labour has noright to lecture on immigration”). Looking ahead, we must recognize that many are shell shocked by the pace ofchange in our society, now underscored by the census results. Integratingthe nearly three million immigrants
Speech by Labour Party Leader | Migration Watch UK
Following the speech made this morning by the Labour Party Leader, Ed Miliband, Sir Andrew Green said: “The steps which Ed Miliband outlined to promote integration are perfectly sensible but there was a glaring gap in his speech – namely his failure to say anything significant about limiting the scale