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.
May 1st 2026: ONS warns of rampant population growth, and leading research body publishes draft bill for ECHR withdrawal
The ONS published its 2024-based National Population Projections this week, confirming what Migration Watch has warned for nearly two decades: without a change in policy, the UK’s population will surge past 70 million by the mid 2030s, driven entirely by migration.