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Beware The Burnhamwave
Britain is still living with the consequences of the “Boriswave”: the unprecedented surge in migration produced by Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit immigration system. Net migration peaked at 944,000 in the year to March 2023. Although it…
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Weak Budgets and Even Weaker Borders
This week, the Chancellor told us his Budget would bring “breathing space for today, fresh hope for the future”. On immigration, it is anything but. Buried in the small print is a collection of liberalising…
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Dither, Delay and Pay The Price
The Home Office has found a novel way to deal with a deadline: ignore it. The Critic reports that the internal 14 October date for announcing Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) reforms has disappeared, with…
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Stop This Madcap Rush Towards National Hara-Kiri
For years, politicians, officials, corporate lobbyists and many academics have insisted our nation’s prosperity depended on ever-escalating levels of mass migration. Migration Watch has argued against this and for years said that low-skill, low-pay immigration…
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Robots, Not Migrants
Britain cannot build a prosperous future by propping up inefficient, outmoded and struggling businesses by giving them a free hand to import cheaper migrant labour. For too long, politicians have gone along with employers’ demands…
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The Shabanawave Approaches
Whatever moniker it ends up with, we have no doubt that the ‘safe and legal routes’ for asylum seekers announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week, will not stop the boats. Nor will it have…
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Don’t Get Distracted
For all the headlines, political rows and television footage, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain’s immigration problem begins and ends with small boats. It does not.
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A Serious Problem Deserves A Serious Debate
There was something revealing about our Chairman, Alp Mehmet’s, appearance this week before the Public Bill Committee considering the Government’s Immigration and Asylum Bill.
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The NHS Must Break Its Dependence On Overseas Recruitment
Overseas recruitment allows governments to postpone the investment needed to attract and retain staff here, and should be treated as a policy failure to overcome, rather than justification to continue the failure.
Learn MoreThey Told Us Immigration Would Come Down
The country is changing fast due to mass immigration We were promised control of our borders and reduced immigration We imagine that like us at Migration Watch UK, you have had enough of attention-grabbing headlines and big (broken) promises. Perhaps it’s still early days for this Prime Minister and his
We’ll Hold Them To Account In 2023
We won’t let up on holding their feet to the fire We won’t ease up on holding the government’s feet to the fire in 2023 Happy New Year! While the Prime Minister promises (again) to crack down on illegal boat crossings, the even bigger story of a decades-long immigration tsunami
2022: A Year Of Broken Records And Promises. What Of 2023?
2022 has been a momentous year of broken records. In the year ending September 2022, immigration was in excess of one million, with net migration of over half a million. The inflow from outside the EU of students and their dependants and those coming to work plus their dependants and
News Emerges That The Uk Is Granting Three Times More Asylum Applications Than France
Migration Watch UK’s latest research has had a big impact in the press this week. This research paper shows that the UK is approving nearly three times as many of its asylum claims as France and double the European Union average. This makes it clear just how generous the UK is to
Should We Believe Them Now?
Will the PM stick to his guns on border control? Is this really anything new? The ‘five-point’ plan unveiled by the Prime Minister on Tuesday is in reality nothing new. Speeding up processing and removals, getting asylum seekers out of costly hotel accommodation and introducing further legislation to make removals easier are
They Just Shrug Their Shoulders
Lord Green asks how we’ll bring down immigration Politicians react to shocking census and immigration figures with a shrug of the shoulders The facts are there for everyone to see. Immigration has changed the country. In some parts, Britain has been transformed in just a few decades, picking up pace since the turn