Media Reports Archive : March 2023


Fury at new migrant plan in tiny English village that faces almost doubling its population

Furious residents have accused Robert Jenrick of "piling" the nation's asylum seeker pressure onto their tiny Essex village

31 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Braverman's migrant crisis solution only works in the short term. There's a far bigger problem that must be fixed, says Stephen Dixon

Housing thousands of migrants in hotels across the UK has proved to be hugely controversial, not to mention hugely expensive at more than £6million

31 Mar 2023 - Media Report: GB News
Immigrants now make up 10 percent of France's population, says statistics agency

More than a third of immigrants in France in 2021 had acquired French citizenship, it said

31 Mar 2023 - Media Report: France 24
Emily Thornberry refuses to answer BBC QT question over housing migrants in barracks

The Shadow Attorney General appeared to tie herself in knots when she was pressed on Labour's stance on housing asylum seekers

31 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Afghan pilot who fought Taliban could be deported to Rwanda

Ministers have refused to rule out deporting an Afghan pilot who fought alongside British

30 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Tories hit out at ‘gimmick’ plans to house migrants on ferries and barges

Conservative MPs hit out at the proposals as a “gimmick” that would do little to reduce the huge accommodation costs

30 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migration dilemma leaves Rishi Sunak confronting an expensive mess

The rows about small boat crossings over the Channel are the ultimate example of a political bind

30 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Radical chic charities

The modern charity sinecure is unabashedly radical, and increasingly commands an immense amount of power and capital

30 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Critic
SMILES APART Albania’s PM smiles with Rishi Sunak — before slamming how his country’s Channel migrants are ‘singled out’

Edi Rama blasted the Home Secretary Suella Braverman who referred last year to “Albanian criminals”

24 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
Migrant bill could stop injunctions holding up removals

Judges would be barred from granting injunctions to stop the removal of illegal migrants

24 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Albanian PM: Suella Braverman’s migrants attack sank relations with UK

Downing Street announced that a joint task force would assess Albania’s prison capacity by the end of next month

24 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Wakefield Council to challenge plan for more asylum seekers

Wakefield council is to challenge HO plans to house asylum seekers in their local area

23 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Braverman’s critics must do better than the mantra of ‘safe and legal routes’

The current asylum system brings many evils in its train

23 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Conservative Home
Immigrants are Sunak’s only hope for growing the workforce

The UK and America are the only G7 countries to have failed to lift their workforce to pre-pandemic levels

22 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Spectator
Will migration target be lowered? Chancellor Jeremy Hunt suggests ministers will try and get net figure below 245,000 as current levels are 'too high'

Jeremy Hunt suggested yesterday that ministers will try to get net migration lower than 245,000 a year because the figure was 'too high'

22 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
A DAM SCANDAL I live in the Dambusters village set to house migrants – I have no problem with them but it’s just not suitable here

Now locals and historians fear Government proposals for an accommodation centre for 1,500 asylum seekers here will scupper plans to conserve it

22 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
Migrants being housed in almost 400 hotels across UK

Almost 400 hotels are currently being used to house asylum seekers, it has been revealed

21 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Private firms profiting from UK asylum hotels

Private firms are making increased profits as the government pays millions of pounds a day to put up asylum seekers in the UK

21 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Nigel Farage RAGES at plan to turn iconic Dambusters HQ into migrant camp - ‘Cultural desecration!’

Nigel Farage has voiced his strong opposition to plans that would see the home of the Dambusters turned into a migrant camp

21 Mar 2023 - Media Report: GB News
The outboard motors migrants are using to get across the Channel: Officials lay out engines used by asylum seekers crossing from France to show scale of the problem of record numbers landing in UK

The weekend crossings bring the total figure so far for 2023 to 3,680 migrants arriving in 86 boats

21 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Is Rishi Sunak starting to win over voters? New poll sees Labour's lead over the Tories cut to just 10 points after series of announcements on Brexit, Channel migrants and the economy

Labour's lead over the Tories has been slashed by 13 points

21 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Suella Braverman 'encouraged' by talks with European Court of Human Rights in push to have migrants sent to Rwanda

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said she is "encouraged" by "constructive" discussions with the European Court of Human Rights

20 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Nothing better illustrates how out of touch Britain’s New Elite are with the rest of us than the Gary Lineker furore, MATTHEW GOODWIN writes

There are moments in politics when the governing classes pull back the curtain and reveal themselves to be dangerously out of touch

20 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
Jeremy Hunt: More immigration not a Brexit betrayal

Jeremy Hunt has denied that the decision to give some overseas construction workers easier access to UK jobs was a "betrayal of Brexit"

17 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Priti Patel leads Tory backlash against 'visas for trade' plan in Jeremy Hunt's Budget

Tory MPs have joined Nigel Farage in warning the Government over inflated legal migration figures breaking the 2019 election promise

17 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Watchdog doubts Rishi Sunak’s lower immigration pledge

Rishi Sunak’s pledge to reduce overall immigration is on course to fail after the government’s budget watchdog upgraded its forecast

16 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Fifth arrest in Loughborough over speedboat migrant smuggling

A fifth man has been arrested over a foiled attempt to smuggle migrants into the UK

16 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
MIGRANT SURGE 1.6million migrants set to come to Britain in the next five years, figures reveal

ANOTHER 1.6million migrants are set to come to Britain in the next five years, new figures revealed

16 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
Asylum seekers win permission to challenge UK’s Rwanda policy

Ten asylum seekers from a range of conflict zones including Iran, Iraq and Syria are involved in the legal challenge

15 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Guardian
Gang guilty of using refrigerated lorry to smuggle migrants into Portsmouth port

The gang’s activities were uncovered following a four-year investigation by the National Crime Agency

15 Mar 2023 - Media Report: ITV
SNP wants control of immigration policies after deaths exceed births

Scotland suffered “negative natural change” in its population as deaths outnumbered births last year

15 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Brussels scuppers hopes of sending Channel migrants back to Europe

The EU has rejected French president Emmanuel Macron’s call for an EU-wide agreement for migrants crossing the Channel illegally to be sent back

14 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Match of the day analysis: You have to admire how Suella Braverman puts Labour on the defensive

Speaking as the child of immigrants, she said, “I’m deeply grateful to live here” but we have simply had “too much” immigration

14 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Tories see poll boost with Conservative voters over migration policy

Some 44 per cent said the government had the right immigration policies, up from 27 per cent last month

14 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Independent
British woman who fostered Afghan migrant, 28, who was deported after raping 12-year-old girl tells him NOT to come back as he tries to smuggle himself back across the Channel

Emal Kochai, 28, was thrown out the country in 2019 after serving half of his nine-year prison sentence for the rape of a girl in Reading

13 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
TREVOR KAVANAGH Gary Lineker does not speak for the nation – and self-righteous Labour who assume he does are heading for electoral ruin

The Beeb, the soundtrack to our lives for 100 years, was already tottering over claims of bias

13 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
Why ‘safe routes’ to asylum can’t work

More than two thirds of applicants are getting the green light from tribunals in the UK now

13 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Spectator
The extortionate cost of housing migrants

Where are they to go while the legislation is being debated and the inevitable legal challenges are under way in the courts?

10 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Home Office to find extra £2 billion to fund hotel rooms for asylum seekers

The Home Office has had to find an extra £2 billion to fund hotel rooms for asylum seekers

10 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
France ‘must back’ Britain’s migrant plan, Sunak to tell Macron

France must fight Britain’s corner on migrant deportations

10 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
'No longer in the EU!' Suella Braverman savages bloc's attempt to meddle in migrant law

The Home Secretary's plans will stop asylum, modern slavery, and human rights laws being used by migrants who have breached Britain's borders

10 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Huge public backing for Rishi Sunak's plan to tackle the boats crisis, poll shows

New poll shows voters back the Prime Minister's plan to tackle the migrant crisis

10 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Britain takes in most refugees since Second World War

More refugees have come to the UK since Brexit than at any time since the Second World War, according to a new report

9 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
'APPALLING RACKET' Criminal gangs using TikTok to sell £7k speedboat Channel crossings to desperate migrants

CRIMINAL gangs are charging migrants £7,000 to cross the Channel on a speedboat — and selling the service on TikTok

9 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Sun
EU warns UK immigration bill 'violates international law' as minister says 'thousands' of refugees could be sent to Rwanda

The comments came as the EU joined the international backlash against the controversial Illegal Immigration Bill

9 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Channel migrants: Rishi Sunak to meet Emmanuel Macron

Paris is world famous for romance. But what about bromance (or romance fraternelle, as the UK's French cousins might say)?

9 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Afghan migrant, 28, who tried to board a small boat to the UK this week was deported from Britain just four years ago after being jailed for raping a 12-year-old schoolgirl

An Afghan migrant who just days ago tried to board a small boat to the UK had already been deported from England after raping a schoolgirl

8 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
United Nations refugee agency condemns Sunak´s small boats legislation

The United Nations’ refugee agency has urged MPs and peers to block Rishi Sunak’s “profoundly” concerning plan to tackle small boat crossings

8 Mar 2023 - Media Report: PA
'We can't accept everyone who wants to come here': Defiant Suella Braverman says Channel migrants MUST be deterred after UN brands plan to block arrivals from seeking asylum in the UK a 'clear breach' of post-WW2 convention on protecting refu

Suella Braverman sounded defiance today as the UN condemned plans to block Channel migrants from claiming asylum in the UK

8 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
The key points in Rishi Sunak’s illegal immigration bill

The Bill places a new legal duty on the Home Secretary to detain and remove those arriving in the UK illegally

8 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
The Times view on Rishi Sunak’s plan to tackle Channel migrants: Stopping the Boats

Mr Sunak’s credibility now depends upon solving a problem he has pushed to the top of his personal agenda

8 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
The real madness with UK's migrant crisis lies in refusing to act, says STEPHEN POLLARD

There's a famous if apocryphal headline from the 1950s that's regularly wheeled out by Europhiles

7 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Channel migrants: Chance for progress - but can Sunak deliver?

Labour are scathing about what they have heard so far, suggesting it is reheating previous plans that have not worked

7 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Suella Braverman vows to 'push boundaries of international law' to stop migrants

Suella Braverman has vowed to “push the boundaries of international law” to stop migrants entering the UK illegally in a direct challenge to European

7 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Why are people leaving Albania? How many UK asylum seekers are Albanian and if the country is safe

Albanian was the most common nationality applying for asylum in the UK last year, according to figures released by the Home Office last month

7 Mar 2023 - Media Report: iNews
Channel migrants face lifetime ban on returning to UK

Channel migrants will be removed from the UK, banned from future re-entry and unable to apply for British citizenship under new legislation

6 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Sunak isn’t halting migrant boats or chasing traffickers: he’s just chasing headlines again

The government cannot be accused of under-promising when it comes to ending the practice of refugees crossing the Channel in dinghies

6 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Guardian
Rishi Sunak latest: Brexit deal will help stop Channel boats, says minister — follow live

Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal with the EU will help him fulfil his pledge to stop migrants arriving in small boats,

6 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Solving the Channel migrant crisis

For the second time in just over a week, Rishi Sunak has set out to solve a seemingly intractable problem

6 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrant families to be deported if they enter Britain illegally

Families face detention and deportation if they enter the UK illegally under tough new measures

6 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Modern slavery loophole to be shut for foreign criminals and illegal migrants

Foreign criminals and illegal migrants who claim to be victims of modern slavery face deportation under new rules

3 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Southampton: Six illegal workers arrested in Home Office raid

Home Office immigration enforcement teams carried out six warrants

3 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Southampton Daily Echo
More asylum seekers claiming financial support in Peterborough than ever before - up by 144 people

More asylum seekers in Peterborough are receiving financial support than ever before while their claim is being processed

3 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Peterborough Telegraph
Tory MP '30p Lee' Anderson says he sympathises with people taking part in protests outside asylum seeker hotels because 'it's human nature to be concerned about sudden changes in a community'

Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson says he sympathises with people taking part in protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers

3 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Mail Online
European small boat ‘smuggler’ gang busted for ‘shipping migrants to the UK'

The men allegedly belong to a gang organising smuggling runs to the UK, including a number of crossings last year

3 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express
Left-wing luvvies are endangering Britain

The truth is that Elliott should never have been in the UK when he committed the murder

2 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Foreign aid budget 'raided' by Home Office to pay for refugee hotels, says committee

A report from the International Development Committee said the world's poorest countries were being 'short-changed'

2 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Sky News
Britain’s immigration system is in a panicky state of collapse

According to Migration Watch, in 2021 the UK’s asylum grant rate at the initial decision stage was almost three times that of France

2 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Telegraph
Time to show illegal immigrants that Britain is no holiday camp

Across the UK, 198 local authorities were having to cope with influxes of Section 98 migrants – 48% of the total

2 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Capx
Bosses tell government to tackle childcare cost and mental health

The head of Britain’s big-business lobby group will tell a conference today that immigration is no longer a crutch

1 Mar 2023 - Media Report: The Times
Four arrested over inflatable boat migrant smuggling Published

Four people have been arrested in connection with a foiled attempt to smuggle migrants from mainland Europe to the UK using a speedboat

1 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
Missing children found in Cheetham Hill counterfeit street crackdown

Children who have gone missing from asylum seeker hotels around the country have been found working in Manchester's 'counterfeit street'

1 Mar 2023 - Media Report: BBC
More people immigrated to UK in 2022 than any other year in history

Some 105 million people passed through the UK border into the country last year

1 Mar 2023 - Media Report: Express

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