Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Yvette Cooper’s Immigration Speech | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on Yvette Cooper’s speech, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This speech is elegant camouflage for the absence of any real policy on the central issue of scale. Net foreign immigration under the last Labour government totalled nearly four million, two thirds from outside the European Union. Yvette Cooper now says […]
Some Clarifying Points On Eu Migration, Clegg &farage Eu Debate
At last night’s debate on the European Union between Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg, the following exchange took place regarding Migration Watch’s recently released paper ‘The Outlook for EU migration’: Nigel Farage: “Indeed there was a report out this morning from Migration Watch which said that even at current numbers we’ve got to build a […]
Over Half A Million Eu Migrants Expected In The Next 5 Years – That Is More Than The Population Of Manchester
The recent increase in migration from the EU is likely to continue into the medium term throwing the government’s immigration policy off course and creating tension between the UK’s continued membership of the EU and control of our borders. That is the conclusion of a paper issued today by Migration Watch UK. The paper, the first estimate […]
Ict Visas And The Immigration Figures Are The Home Office Fiddling The Figures?
Last week there were press reports that the government was going to ‘massage’ the immigration figures by shortening the short term Intra Company Transfer (ICT) route to less than one year so as to take 20,000 out of the immigration figures [1]. However, by no means all will be coming for a full year thus qualifying […]
The Deeply Flawed Prospectus Of Conservatives For Managed Migration
By Sir Andrew GreenChairman of Migration Watch UK Mark Field’s launch on Tuesday of a new group “Conservatives for Managed Migration” received a warm welcome from the immigration lobby and from the Labour party but it is hard to take them seriously. The group appears to have very little knowledge of the actual policy issues […]
House Of Lords Select Committee On The Constitution Findings On The Immigration Bill
The Select Committee brings three clauses of the Immigration Bill to the attention of the house. Read the Full Briefing Paper No 8.76
Migration Watch Paper On The Fiscal Effects Of Immigration To The Uk And The Response From Cream
1. CReAM has responded to our paper by misrepresenting the points we made without answering them[1]. Perhaps this was a ploy to distract attention from the weaknesses we have identified but it is not what we should expect from an academic institution. 2. The Migration Watch analysis is anything but the “violent attack” claimed. On […]
Immigrants Have Cost The Tax Payer Over £140 Billion Since 1995
Recent immigrants from 2001 to 2011 might have cost over £25 bn. Migration Watch UK today issued a new assessment of the cost of immigration to the tax payer. The outcome is that immigrants cost the taxpayer over £140 billion or more than £22 million a day over the 17 years 1995 – 2011. The Migration Watch […]
The Impacts Of Migration On Uk Native Employment
Summary 1. The government review of the literature on the impact of immigration on UK native employment focused on the link between immigration and unemployment. It concluded that there was evidence of labour market displacement in times of recession but relatively little evidence in times of economic growth. The other aspect, that the majority of […]
The Institute Of Directors And Immigration
The Institute of Directors (IoD) have been busy of late. Earlier last week Simon Walker, the Director General, argued in a debate that London needed more immigration. Later in the week, Mr Walker described a speech made by James Brokenshire, the Minister of State for Immigration, as ‘feeble and pathetic’. (See here) Mr Brokenshire’s crime? He suggesting […]