Tory minister roasted by BBC presenter over broken immigration pledges
The last Conservative election manifesto pledged to bring the number below 229,000 a year, while David Cameron had promised to bring it down to the tens of thousands.
Immigration
Majority of British people hold positive view of immigration, survey reveals
59% thought that immigration was very positive for the UK economy
Suella Braverman compared to Enoch Powell after claiming ‘hurricane’ of mass migration coming to UK
“Suella Braverman with her reference to “hurricanes” coming is as divisive & dangerous as Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” rhetoric of the 1960s.”
Tory MP says it’s ‘not xenophobic’ to want town centres not to feel ‘foreign’
Hunt was defending Suella Braverman
Making babies – the Right’s latest bright idea
Orbán-style birthrate populism with nasty racist undertones has arrived in Britain. How worried should we be?
Douglas Murray’s ‘send illegal migrants to Islington’ column mocked
‘Right-wing weaponising immigration AGAIN’
55% of voters say they could change their vote before the election, showing no room for complacency
Only 45% say they have completely settled on who to vote for.
Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy
‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’
Grant Shapps loses it in car crash interview with Sky News presenter
“It’s not Labour who’s been in power for the last 13 years.”
Eye-watering cost of sending each migrant to Rwanda revealed
If the government wants to break even on the Rwanda scheme, it would need to deter about 37% of people from crossing the Channel