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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 MoreThe Country Has Changed
We did not vote for this transformation Census figures reveal how immigration has transformed a crowded UK Newly-released data from the 2021 Census show that the population of England and Wales has grown by more than eight million since 2001, with all of the increase being the result of immigration
Damagingly High Migration Levels
The new ONS data is breathtaking Net migration figures are a hammer-blow. Do any of our politicians have the will and courage to fix the problem? Not much surprises us here at Migration Watch UK, after 20 years of painstaking study of the mess that is our ballooning immigration crisis.
£220 Million And They Keep Coming…
Money won’t solve the Channel crisis This week, another £63 million promised to France as the Channel crisis got worse, followed by some decidedly dodgy figures in the autumn statement On Monday came the news that the Home Secretary signed a new agreement to give France a further £63 million
The Channel Must Be Sorted Out
British voters on’t stand for lax enforcement The Channel crisis must be solved, now! As the number of those arriving here illegally is set to surge once again on the English Channel, politicians are beginning to wake up to the fact that the obvious chaos and absence of control is going down badly
This Is Why They Hate Suella…
The PM must stand by the Home Secretary The new PM must back his Home Secretary and cut immigration, NOW Firstly, we heartily congratulate Rishi Sunak on becoming our Prime Minister. We wish him well and every success, for all our sakes. The reappointment of Suella Braverman to Home Secretary is
The Numbers Are Astonishing
Our country has changed Massive changes to Britain from lax migration policies The sheer scale of immigration in the last two decades and the rapid and lasting changes brought about by overly loose border policies was laid bare this week with the publication of data for the 2021 census. The new figures