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A Shocking Year, Strewn With Failure. Pull Your Socks up or go!

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 government performed on its own […]

War In Iran Will Only Make Britain’s Migration Crisis Worse

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 aside, the ONS put the […]

Is The Prime Minister’s Plan Working?

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 intercepted an additional 40 per […]

A Passage From India – Explaining The Unexpected Rise Of Indians Crossing The Channel

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 into Spring suggests this May […]

From Baghdad To Bournemouth – Granting Refuge To Terrorists

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 investigation’ by other countries when […]

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 policies and pronouncements. Immigration is an area that is particularly tightly monitored by pollsters,  because it has long been a core […]

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 there has been no end to the calls for ever more immigration. If anything, it seems as if no matter […]

What’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 year, we published exclusive data linking the significant increase in modern slavery claims to the Channel crisis. This data had such an […]