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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 Border Deception Explodes
They cannot gaslight us any longer Challenge the post-Brexit gaslighting Just when you thought this government couldn’t loosen our beleaguered borders any further (with a record million entry grants handed out in the past year or so – see here) the news broke this week that British graduates are being further punished with
Get 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