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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 MoreNot A Peep On Mass Immigration…
Why the radio silence on this critical issue? Why are they avoiding the topic of mass immigration? Have you noticed the almost total radio silence on immigration from all of the Tory leadership candidates? Sure, we have heard a great deal about Rwanda, the Channel crisis and vague promises to
Backbone Not Headlines
Good intentions are not enough to control borders Only backbone and political will can fix our borders Well, what a week, and it’s not over yet. Lurking in the midst of the political soap opera there were two stories that in different circumstances might have attracted a little more attention.
Should We Leave The Echr?
If it means better border control, perhaps so… If we need to pull the plug on the ECHR to restore immigration and border control, so be it. After the shameful failure of the first attempted Rwanda flight, the government has tabled new legislation to replace the Human Rights Act but wants
Wow! The Numbers Are Staggering…
The UK’s population soared by 3.5 million in a decade Enforcement collapsed. Population soars. Voters held in contempt Earlier this week the first results from the 2021 census were published. Our initial reaction was, wow! (See our summary and press comment). The numbers really were astonishing. The population of England and Wales rose
The Open Borders Brigade Strike Again
We must not let them thwart the Rwanda scheme Activist lawyers make their move Predictably, and only weeks after the Home Secretary announced plans to send illegal Channel-crossers to Rwanda for processing of their claims, the open borders industry, including activist lawyers, NGOs and a civil service union, have kicked into
50,000 Channel Crossers Since 2018
And remote judges cancel Rwanda flight Rwanda flight stopped dead by ECHR as boat arrivals top 50,000 No sooner had the court in Strasbourg blocked the first flight carrying illegal Channel crossers to Rwanda than we learned that boat arrivals into Kent had topped an astonishing 50,000 since 2018 (see