Media Reports Archive : August 2017


Fears of new migrant 'Jungle' in the heart of Europe

Hundreds of migrants are sleeping near a Brussels train station sparking fears in the EU capital of a new 'Jungle'.

30 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Debunking the ‘Brexodus’ myth

A new word has entered the lexicon – Brexodus – to reflect the claim that Europeans are leaving in droves as they shun post-Brexit Britain.

29 Aug 2017 - Media Report: The Spectator
The debate on immigration in Britain puts GDP ahead of people, writes Nick Timothy

If we are to absorb immigration in a way that maintains the values of our country, then it needs to be controlled, and lower.

29 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Britain's panicking companies have grown lazy on immigration. Outside the EU they must think differently

Employers realise now, more than ever, that people are the greatest resource of all. All told, it is not a bad problem to have.

25 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
Action on non-EU migration ‘essential’, Government warned

Migration Watch UK calculates that the balance between arrivals and departures from non-EU countries could run at around 155,000 a year until 2021.

23 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Press Association
Theresa May says UK leaving EU court's jurisdiction

Theresa May has insisted the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK will come to an end with Brexit.

23 Aug 2017 - Media Report: BBC News
European judges could still settle cross border cases including divorces even after Brexit, ministers admit

European courts may still be allowed to hand down rulings in Britain to settle issues such as divorces, the Government admitted today.

22 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Stateless Punjabi kid ruling opens UK doors for many

Who would have thought that at a Punjabi girl would hold the key to changing lives of thousands of illegal immigrants in Britain.

22 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Times of India
Dramatic moment TWO HUNDRED illegal migrants are arrested by immigration cops as part of massive crackdown on homes packed with foreign workers

In the first half of this 2017, the two hundred illegals were found living in squalid conditions with landlords using them as easy income.

21 Aug 2017 - Media Report: The Sun
EU migrants barred from claiming benefits after Brexit as Theresa May revives David Cameron pledge

EU migrants will be barred from claiming in-work benefits unless they have been employed for at least four years after Brexit.

18 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
EU citizens ‘WILL be free to live in Britain after Brexit but will need permits to work under new Home Office immigration plans’

EU CITIZENS will still be able to travel to and live in Britain after Brexit under new immigration plans, it has been reported.

17 Aug 2017 - Media Report: The Sun
EU migrant figures hit record high: 2.37 million working in the UK

A record 2.37 million EU migrants are working in Britain, it has been revealed.

17 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Express
Record number of EU workers in Britain after post-Brexit slump

The number of EU nationals working in the UK has reached a record following a post-Brexit slump, according to official figures.

16 Aug 2017 - Media Report: The Times
UK suggests 'untested' customs system with EU

The government says it will propose an 'innovative and untested approach' to customs checks as part of its Brexit negotiations.

15 Aug 2017 - Media Report: BBC News
The migration crisis hasn't gone away, as EU leaders are finding to their increasing panic

Rather than travel across the Mediterranean to Greece, which has seen numbers fall since the middle of 2015, they are now aiming for Italy and Spain.

14 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Telegraph
EU blamed for rise in trafficking and slaves

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has blamed freedom of movement in the EU for a rise in human trafficking and modern slavery in Britain.

14 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Sunday Times
Should students be included in the UK’s net migration figures?

Calls to remove students from the net migration figures are misguided, says Migration Watch UK's Alanna Thomas.

10 Aug 2017 - Media Report: City AM
Spanish police push back 700 migrants as they attempt to storm a 20-foot border fence guarding entry to the country's North African enclave of Ceuta

About 700 migrants attempted to storm the border between Morocco and Spain at the enclave of Ceuta (pictured), but the Spanish authorities succeeded.

10 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Migrants make 30,000 illegal bids to get into the UK from Calais this year despite costly security measures around the port and Channel Tunnel

Figures come nearly a year after closure of the notorious Jungle migrant camp.

9 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Universities take foreign students ahead of British

Drive for higher fees ‘betrays’ sixth-formers.

7 Aug 2017 - Media Report: The Sunday Times
Rome feels it has been abandoned by Europe over the migrant crisis just as a local backlash is boosting the opposition

Migrant arrivals to Italy by sea: the numbers are set to rise.

3 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Financial Times
Illegal immigrants savagely beat up three lorry drivers headed for the UK after they refused to let them sneak on board in Belgium

The lorry drivers are said to have been attacked at service station in Gentbrugge.

3 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
British holidaymakers faint and miss their flights in FOUR HOUR queues at European airports after Brussels insists on tough new EU border checks

Airports popular with UK tourists have seen queues stretching back hundreds of yards after stricter checks were imposed on entry and exit.

1 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Britain's border controls in crisis 'because of seasonal workers'

The Home Office has been accused of “papering over cracks” with temporary staff.

1 Aug 2017 - Media Report: Daily Express

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