Tories accused of hypocrisy over Withdrawal Agreement ‘power grab’
Conservative MPs have been demanding Remainers ‘accept democracy’….while government changes to the Brexit bill undermine Parliamentary scrutiny.
Conservative MPs have been demanding Remainers ‘accept democracy’….while government changes to the Brexit bill undermine Parliamentary scrutiny.
5 figures that show how work isn’t paying off in Tory Britain
Politicians must end the ‘race to the bottom’ on immigration
Some ‘welfare-to-work’ providers twice as tough for the same referrals
There is further uncertainty over how the government will achieve its stated goal of reducing net immigration to the “tens of thousands” – an aim reiterated by David Cameron in a speech on new technology in east London this afternoon. Yesterday, the prime minister said intra-company transfers would be exempted from the immigration cap – an area over which immigration minister Damian Green came unstuck on Newsnight last night.
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.