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The Rights of EU Nationals in the UK Post-Brexit
Summary 1. Calls to offer a unilateral guarantee to EU nationals and indeed the House of Lords amendment to the Article 50 Bill only scratch the surface of the issues involved. They also ignore the fact that approximately 85% of the 3.6 million EU citizens now in the UK will
A unilateral legal guarantee for EU nationals in the UK could only undermine the position of our own citizens living in the EU | Migration Watch UK
A House of Lords amendment to the Article 50 Bill is to be considered in the House of Commons today. If passed, it could severely undermine the Prime Minister’s ability to secure the rights of nearly a million UK citizens living in the European Union. Those campaigning for this amendment
The Lords amendment designed to derail Brexit that MPs should reject today | Migration Watch UK
By Lord Green of DeddingtonChairman of Migration Watch UKConservative Home, 13 March, 2017 Today, the Commons will consider a key amendment to the Bill triggering our withdrawal negotiations with the EU. It should be very firmly opposed. Let us be in no doubt that the effect, perhaps unintended, of the amendment
The final Brexit deal must honour the public’s desire for reduced net migration | Migration Watch UK
By Lord Green of DeddingtonChairman of Migration Watch UKUK in a Changing Europe, 7 March, 2017 With the most complex negotiations in our history about to commence, the outcome on immigration will be crucial. Since 2004, Polish plumbers, Italian baristas and, indeed, a whole range of less-stereotypicalEuropean migrants have come to
MW404 : APPG on Social Integration Proposal for Regional Policy | Migration Watch UK
1. In August 2016 the All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration launched an inquiry into how immigration policy could more effectively promote integration.[1] Their interim report sets out six principles that they believe could promote better integration, by which they mean the extent to which people conform to shared norms
MW402 : City of London/PwC Proposal for Regional Immigration Policy | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. The regional visa system proposed by the City of London and PwC would require a total overhaul of the immigration system causing unnecessary confusion and chaos and would place a significant additional bureaucratic and administrative burden on employers, local authorities and UK Visas and Immigration. The system would
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