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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.
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Immigration Ponzi Scheme Puts Pensions in Peril
The pensions crisis remains unresolved while population growth – driven by migration - continues at a historically unprecedented pace, as young migrants too grow older and become the pensioners of the future.
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New Home Office Stats Show Government Still Hasn’t Got A Grip
Bringing numbers down from historically exceptional highs is one thing. Restoring a properly controlled, sustainable immigration system, at levels the country can absorb, is quite another.
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The Home Office’s Plan To Stop Asylum Rapes
How Shabana Mahmood of all people, nominally more sensible and measured than many of her predecessors, could possibly have seen merit in the booklet published earlier this week, “Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK:…
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For Boatload, Read Planeload
This week, UK Border Force escorted a single inflatable dinghy into Dover carrying 230 people. The boat broke a record set just seventeen days earlier. And no wonder – the French authorities have adopted a…
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What Do We Mean By The White British?
It is amazing what journalists and commentators will pretend not to understand for the sake of creating a story. On Radio 4 this week Nick Robinson pressed Rupert Lowe on whether the King qualifies as…
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England’s Housing Crisis and Immigration
Migration Watch has long warned of the impact of mass, uncontrolled migration on Britain’s housing market. In January this year, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a response to concerns about a…
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Some questions are simple to ask and simple to answer, yet remain central to the national debate over migration. Questions such as, “Do some migrant groups offend at higher rates than others and how do…
Learn MoreGet The Facts On Immigration
We are seeing record numbers of mass immigration A record MILLION entry grants in a year. Get the facts here Newly-released Home Office statistics reveal that around a million people were granted long term UK visas in the year to March 2022. While we and much of the world endured lockdowns and travel
The Verdict Is In… The Government Has Not Reduced Immigration
The verdict is in. The Government’s promise to ‘take back control’ and reduce mass immigration has not only failed, it it has been seen for the con it was from the outset. Our new paper on the first year of visa grants after the opening of the post-Brexit visa system shows that
Border Promises Must Be Kept
Lots of words on immigration once again this week from the government in the Queen’s Speech. We heard how Her Majesty’s Government was going to fulfil the will of the people and put an end to illegal crossings on the Channel. As Brenda from Bristol might say, “what, again?”. As we said, the
Tough Borders Need Backbone
Does the government have the backbone to deliver on the Rwanda deal? Our latest analysis of the government’s Rwanda asylum deal (see summary) concludes that the policy has the potential to send a powerful message to the vile traffickers. Flying illegal immigrants coming from a safe country to Rwanda will discourage would-be migrants from
They Just Don’t Get It…
Out-of-touch political class and border control Despite Boris Johnson promising the British public that he would honour the Brexit vote by delivering firmer borders and lower inflows at the last election, the post-Brexit immigration changes have driven a huge rise in immigration from outside the EU – with nearly a
Is This Really Control?
Boris Johnson’s election promise to reduce immigration was a sham The penny is finally dropping. As we have been saying since the (Australian) points-based system (PBS) was first mooted ahead of the Brexit vote and later sold to the public in the 2019 election campaign – a loose PBS, Australian in