Conservative MPs have been demanding Remainers 'accept democracy'....while government changes to the Brexit bill undermine Parliamentary scrutiny.
Damian Green is to give his first speech as immigration minister later today, in which he will claim that the number of foreign students entering the UK is ‘unsustainable’, drawing on new Home Office research. The same research has also suggested that it will be very difficult for the Government to meet its target of reducing net immigration to under 100,000 a year.
The right-wing press have parroted Damian Green's misleading claims about the asylum seeker system. But the figures reveal that staff are clearing the backlog.
We might have expected those calling for drastic reductions in net migration to welcome the recent fall in net migration, particularly given the prominence they have given to concerns about population growth in recent years. Instead MigrationWatch and Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green chose to focus on measure of gross immigration.