Media Reports Archive : February 2017


Theresa May poised to announce end of free movement for new EU migrants next month

Theresa May is next month poised to announce the end of free movement for new EU migrants on the same day that she triggers Article 50.

27 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
As net migration falls by 49,000, more are now coming in to UK from EU than the rest of the world combined BG

The numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians coming here has soared to a new record high of 74,000 over the 12 month period.

24 Feb 2017 - Media Report: The Sun
ID apps could solve our migrant problem

An ID app would be more likely to reassure people now than concern them, and it would allow EU nationals to regularise their lives.

24 Feb 2017 - Media Report: The Times
Net migration to Britain FALLS to 273,000 a year in first figures from after the Brexit vote as EU students stay away

Alp Mehmet, Vice-Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said the fall in net migration was a 'step in the right direction'.

23 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Tony Blair is wrong yet again: immigration from the EU post-Brexit can and will be controlled

Perhaps I might explain to Tony Blair in an “easy to understand” way that he has completed misapprehended the immigration issue.

21 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Brexit Central
UK is third most traffic-congested country in Europe - study

Time wasted in Britain's worst traffic jams cost motorists a staggering £31bn last year, according to new research.

20 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Sky News
There will be little need for more eastern European immigration post-Brexit as report says firms won’t face labour shortage

Migration Watch UK say claims controls on the entry of EU workers will leave firms short-staffed are untrue.

17 Feb 2017 - Media Report: The Sun
Businesses unlikely to face sharp drop in the number of eastern European workers in the UK following Brexit, according to a new report

Businesses are unlikely to face a sharp drop in the number of eastern European workers following Brexit, according to a Migration Watch UK report.

14 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Press Association
Employers optimistic about post-Brexit hiring

British employers are optimistic about their ability to recruit qualified employees after Britain leaves the EU.

14 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Sky News
UK 'must train 1.6 million care workers to plug gaps in workforce post-Brexit'

Britain needs to recruit and train 1.6 million low-skilled health and social care workers up to 2022, more than any other job in the country.

10 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Press Association
SCHENGEN CRACKDOWN: Controls extended across EU over terror threat and migration crisis

Temporary border controls introduced in the wake of the 2015 Paris terror attacks are being extended for another three months.

8 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Daily Express
With health tourists costing taxpayers £1.8bn-a-year the time has come for them to cough up, says former GP Dr Robert Lefever

As a country we damage the service given to our own people — who are entitled to it — when we give it away to someone else.

7 Feb 2017 - Media Report: The Sun
Housing market broken, ministers say ahead of White Paper

Ministers will admit England's housing market is 'broken' as they unveil new plans to build more affordable homes.

7 Feb 2017 - Media Report: BBC News
'It is NOT small beer' Tory grandee Sir Nicholas Soames calls for compulsory health insurance for foreigners

MP Nicholas Soames has called for foreign visitors to arrive on British soil with health insurance certificates amid a crackdown on health tourism.

6 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Daily Express
Migrants could make up four in ten new households: Minister's forecast for the next two decades

Migrants could account for more than four in every ten households formed between now and 2039, a minister has warned.

6 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Health tourism 'chaos' draining the NHS: MPs condemn ministers over millions lost on foreign patients who don't pay

Health tourism is draining the NHS of hundreds of millions of pounds a year because of 'chaotic' billing.

1 Feb 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail

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