The Conservative Performance on Immigration Since 2010
1. Summary 1.1 The net migration target was sensible at the time and proved a valuable focus for policy. There was a significant reduction in non EU migration but this was largely counterbalanced by an increase in EU migration. Policy focussed on tightening conditions for entry. The quality of economic migration was improved but the […]
The Conservative record on immigration | Migration Watch UK
A report on the Conservative record on immigration was issued by Migration Watch UK today. The report finds that the Conservatives struggled to bring order into a situation in which the numbers had run out of control and the system was close to chaos. Despite the limitations of a coalition and continuous pressure from the pro-immigration lobby, […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Prime Minister’s Commitment to Bringing Down Net Migration | Migration Watch UK
Today on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 the Prime Minister reaffirmed his commitment to bringing down net migration to the tens of thousands. Commenting, Lord Green of Deddington, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “This is extremely good news. Clearly there is a long way to go but the Prime Minister’s re-commitment […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on the Conservatives’ six key general election issues | Migration Watch UK
Commenting on the news that the Conservatives will not be including immigration as one of their top six election issues Lord Green of Deddington said: ‘Immigration has now come top equal with the economy the past six months among the issues the public are most concerned with. It is amazing that the Conservative Party have […]
MW340 : Immigration at the party conferences, 2014 | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Labour camouflaged their record on immigration and their lack of any commitment, let alone policies to reduce it by focusing on relatively trivial labour market measures. The Liberal Democrats had nothing significant to say. UKIP repeated their intention to adopt a Point Base System – the very policy that led to chaos under […]
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 […]
Migration Watch UK Press Comment on Immigration Under Labour | Migration Watch UK
The ONS have today adjusted the net migration statistics between 2001 and 2011 to reflect the results of the 2011 Census. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “Having discovered that the Census found nearly half a million more East Europeans in Britain than the immigration figures had suggested, the ONS have […]
Lib Dem immigration policy “vacuous“ | Migration Watch UK
Last night on the BBC2 programme “The truth about immigration“, Vince Cable was dismissive of the government’s immigration objective and suggested that it was time to be “practical“. As it happens, the Lib Dem think tank Centre Forum has just published a paper, sprinkled with quotations from Vince Cable, entitled “The business case for immigration […]
MW324 : A Liberal Democrat Recipe for the Abandonment of Immigration Control | Migration Watch UK
1. A Centre Forum paper published on 23 December contains 21 recommendations. Eighteen are relatively trivial. The other three seem designed to destroy the coalition government’s efforts to control immigration. 2. This intention is camouflaged by the claim that immigration policy should be structured to promote economic growth – a case which the authors believe […]
Immigration and Scottish independence
Summary 1. Immigration is a major political issue in the UK yet the Scottish White paper blithely assumes that a Scottish government could run an immigration policy in conflict wit that of the rest of the UK and still retain an open border. The reality is that, if Scotland does become independent and joins the […]