Research
Unauthorised Channel Crossings
Summary 1. The record daily total for illegal arrivals across the English Channel in small boats has risen from just over 80 in 2019 to more than 100 (and 130 people making the attempt) in the Spring of 2020. More than 650 people have been recorded entering via this unauthorised
The History of Immigration to the UK
1. From the first millennium until the Second World War, episodes of immigration were quite small and usually demographically insignificant. Britain is certainly not “a nation of immigrants” as some claim and immigration on the recent and current scale is a new phenomenon. 2. We can measure historic immigration by
The Coronavirus crisis and border control
Summary 1. There is a clear risk that older visitors from overseas could add to pressures on an already struggling NHS. In recent years there have been about 14 million visitor admissions per year from outside the EU, some from countries where the virus is a significant factor. Nearly ten
Is it true that Britons will not do seasonal agricultural work?
It has been reported that thousands of people, including many Brits, have signed up in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis to pick fruit and vegetables at farms across the UK. Record numbers of people in the UK are now looking for farming jobs (BBC News, 9 April 2020) following
Skewering those ‘zombie facts’ – 20 bogus arguments for mass immigration
20 bogus arguments for mass immigration A number of bogus arguments are often deployed in favour of mass immigration. These can be lazily wheeled out and buttressed by misleading or ‘zombie facts’ which refuse to die no matter how often they are proven to be false. Some politicians and commentators
16 million workers in the UK would see their jobs open to worldwide competition
Summary 1. The recommendationsof the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), published on 28th January, would mean that the basic salary requirements for hiring some immigrant workers would, in practice, be reduced from £30,000 to not much more than the minimum wage. Occupations included would even include child minders. A bogus scheme for unskilled workers
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Statistics
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