Undercutting UK workers – Tory style
We don’t need secretive deals that bring in people through the back door and undercut the wages of UK-based workers.
Jill Rutter
Jill is an Associate Fellow at IPPR. She writes for Left Foot Forward on a range of issues that include family policy and migration.
The actions of Michael Gove may make young people more vulnerable to religious extremism
Over-emphasising the Britishness of certain universal values risks stoking xenophobia.
It’s now clear: UKIP and the Tories were wrong about Romanian and Bulgarian immigration
We are likely to see more migration from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland, but not the large numbers we saw in 2004 and certainly not the millions predicted by UKIP.
Unless you want to pay more for food and social care, EU migrants are here to stay
Instead of making symbolic promises to stem benefit tourism, progressives should consider how to build good community relations in areas that are receiving EU migrants.
The Yvette Cooper speech showed Labour is not going to compete with the Tories to show who is toughest on immigration
Migration stories continue with Yvette Cooper providing more detail on Labour’s policy and a statistical correction from the Office for National Statistics, reports Jill Rutter.
A tale of two immigration announcements
It is a significant day for migration policy, with a government announcement on access to benefits for EU nationals and an important legal judgement on asylum support.
Economic arguments will not persuade a sceptical public about the merits of immigration
Most of the UK-born do not see immigration in terms of its economic benefits, writes Jill Rutter.
The government should learn from the childcare policies of other countries
In Norway, state support for childcare goes to providers who have to meet quality criteria in order to receive any money.
It’s now clear that Tuesday’s immigration proposals were pure dog whistling
We should be promoting integration and replicating success, rather than issuing unworkable policy statements.
The UK can learn a lot from Norway on childcare
Compared with other countries, in the UK there are complicated and inefficient mechanisms for the public funding of childcare.