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Responding 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 MoreHalf A Million More Foreign-born Arrive In Past Decade Than Previous Ten Years
Despite promising cuts in immigration, the government has overseen even higher levels than under Tony Blair or Gordon Brown during their time in office. New datafrom the 2021 Census (carried out during March of last…
Learn MoreMigration Watch UK Comment on YouGov Poll | Migration Watch UK
A new YouGov pollout today has found that 79% of adults in England consider England to be crowded; with 37% saying it is ‘very crowded.’ Only 3% believe that it is not crowded, whilst 15% think that England is about right. The figures were higher for London (85%) and the rest
Is Britain Full Up?
BBC TV Sunday Morning Live debate tomorrow ‘Is Britain full up?’ #bbcsml. Migration Watch Vice Chairman, Alp Mehmet, is contributing. At 5.40 pm this evening Migration Watch E-Petition on The No 10 web site had received 86,031 signatures. If you have not yet signed the e-petition it can be found
250,000 More Homes Needed for Immigrants | Migration Watch UK
The higher population projections published by the ONS last week have implications for the number of new homes required to house future immigrants to Britain. The government’s projections of future households are calculated largely on the basis of the population projections. The most recent set were published in November 2010
Petition Demand for Public’s Voice to be Heard on Immigration | Migration Watch UK
Migration Watch UK have today launched an e-petition calling on the government to stabilise the population of the UK and, certainly, to keep it well below 70 million. The new official population projections issued last week show our population hitting 70 million in 16 years. This is on the assumption
Office of National Statistics Population Projections | Migration Watch UK
The ONS this morning released their 2010 based Population projections which show that the UK population is set to hit 70 million in mid 2027. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said: “These figures confirm that the UK’s dramatic rise in population will continue unabated. The population is now
The Prime Minister’s Speech On Immigration
Comment by Alp Mehmet, Vice Chairman, Migration Watch UK 10 October, 2011 This is the Prime Minister’s second speech on immigration in six months showing he clearly means business. We wholeheartedly support this. It is refreshing that he recognises that the Points Based System is a ‘box ticking exercise’.