15th May 2026: Where Migration Watch Leads, Others Follow
When Migration Watch was founded in 2001, the prevailing orthodoxy in Westminster was that mass immigration was an unalloyed good: economically beneficial, culturally enriching, and even questioning these assumptions marked one as beyond the pale. We set out to change that, armed with rigorous, evidence-based analysis. Over two decades later, positions we once advocated in near-isolation have become the settled consensus of mainstream British politics.
April 24th 2026: Reform UK pledges to review asylum grants, and Sir Keir Starmer hands over more taxpayer cash to France for yet another small boats “deal”
This week, Reform UK announced plans to review all asylum grants made in the past five years should the party win the next general election. Around 400,000 people who entered illegally, overstayed visas, or came from countries now deemed safe would be stripped of their status and deported.