Media Reports Archive : October 2016


I've seen first hand how easily our asylum system can be abused, writes Andy Jones

The problem is that there is no sure way to sort those who pass our criteria from those who are attempting to game them.

31 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Telegraph
Barking and Dagenham faces 50 year wait for new homes according to BBC documentary

A London council have been accused of failing residents after a documentary showed that there is a 50 year waiting time for affordable housing.

31 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Enquirer
Unpaid foreign debt costs health service £200m

The failure of NHS trusts to recover debt from overseas visitors will cost the health service more than £200 million next year.

28 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Times
The Calais Jungle is a disgrace and must never be allowed to rise again, writes Juliet Samuel

Fourteen years after the Sangatte refugee centre was shut, riot police and burning tents have returned to the fields of Calais.

28 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Tesco boss sparks outrage by demanding Britain keeps flow of cheap European labour despite Brexit vote

Supermarket chief John Allan fears planned immigration controls will create shortage of people willing to do 'ordinary important jobs'.

26 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Sun
Others shouldn’t be blamed for Cameron’s renegotiation failure on immigration, writes Migration Watch UK's Lord Green

The public consistently tell pollsters that pressure on services from high levels of migration concern them.

26 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Conservative Home
The damning verdict of an asylum judge who has spent 16 years sifting 'cheats and chancers' from the deserving

The devastating truth is this: the vast majority of those the courts have decided to remove are still here, writes James Hanratty.

24 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Mail on Sunday
Deserted Lithuania relies on refugees

The population of Lithuania has shrunk as people have gone abroad in search of higher wages and better job prospects — half of them to Britain.

24 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Times
May slaps down Hammond over migration target: A day after he said foreign students could be stripped out of figures, PM insists: No they won't

Theresa May delivered a slapdown to Chancellor Philip Hammond last night after the Government endured a chaotic 24 hours over the issue of fore.

21 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Sadiq Khan is expecting London visa proposals within weeks

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is expecting to receive proposals for a new London visa system within weeks .

20 Oct 2016 - Media Report: City AM
Make agriculture more appealing to domestic workers by paying higher wages and improving working conditions, says Migration Watch UK

Reintroducing a Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme to meet the need for part-time workers should be a last resort, says Migration Watch UK.

20 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Farmers Weekly
Eight year influx: Cabinet row erupts as ministers try to delay introduction of tough new immigration system until 2024

Amber Rudd is allying with Chancellor Philip Hammond to insist a new visa system could only be brought in gradually.

18 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Sun
Secondary schools are being 'crippled' by a baby boom fuelled by migration as applications for places soar by 50 per cent

More than half of England's secondary schools are oversubscribed as they are 'crippled' by a baby boom fuelled by high migration, new figures show.

18 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
EU workers will get a visa ONLY if they have a skilled job: Post-Brexit regime would slash net migration by 100,000

Earlier this year, Migration Watch UK called for a system similar to the one now being backed by ministers.

17 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Hammond clashes with Brexiteers on migrants

The chancellor has angered Eurosceptic ministers by calling for a delay on migration curbs that would lead to a hard Brexit and dismay business.

17 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Times
Rudd failed in bid to exempt students from migrant curbs

Amber Rudd made a failed attempt to persuade Theresa May to remove students from the net migration figures, allies say.

13 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Times
London population growth rate twice that of UK, official figures show

London's population grew at twice the rate of the UK as a whole between 2011 and 2015, and could reach almost 10 million by the middle of next decade.

13 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Guardian
Government makes surprise 'climbdown' on Brexit scrutiny

Theresa May offers to accept more scrutiny of Brexit plans in a bid to stop Tory rebels backing a Labour motion.

12 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Sky News
CBI chief: Don't stop migrants to the UK

The boss of the CBI business group insisted she will fight to protect Britain’s open-door immigration policy.

12 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
UK close to deal to transfer child refugees from Calais, says Rudd

French authorities have agreed to verify by the end of this week a list of 387 child refugees with a legal right to come to the UK.

11 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Guardian
The EU and migration. Work permits are the way forward.

Brexit, we are told, means Brexit, but what does Brexit mean for immigration – a key issue in the referendum?

11 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Conservative Home
Firms must list foreign workers

Companies will be forced to reveal how many foreign workers they employ under government plans to shame bosses who fail to take on British staff.

5 Oct 2016 - Media Report: The Times
Stansted bosses slam Border Force over unmanned desks and closed gates which saw 5,000 waiting at Passport Control at midnight

Stansted Airport has blamed a lack of Border Force staff as the reason for passengers facing chaotic scenes as thousands queued at passport control.

5 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Britain will not wait for Brexit to cut migration

Amber Rudd is expected to use her conference speech to announce plans to limit the number of non-EU migrants.

4 Oct 2016 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Student doctor numbers to rise by 25%

The number of medical school places will increase by 25% from 2018 under plans to make England 'self-sufficient' in training doctors.

4 Oct 2016 - Media Report: BBC News

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