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Immigration

A photo of a BBC Question Time audience member challenging Tory MP Danny Kruger on illegal immigration
News

Question Time audience member slams Tory MP for ‘lying’ about immigration

Olivia Barber
14 February, 2025

‘It’s not illegal to claim asylum. You’re lying. You’re lying’

Chris Worrall

GB News’ arguments on Brexit, borders and Trump taken apart by Labour activists

Basit Mahmood
3 February, 2025

Businesses are drowning in red-tape, with £7bn in costs from additional customs administration and at least £10bn in lost trade, with exports dropping by 30% as a result of Brexit

Right-Wing Watch

MAGA mania – will Britain follow Trump’s immigration rift?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
12 January, 2025

Unless Britain truly distances itself from the racially charged nationalism emerging from MAGA mania across the Atlantic, the true victims will be immigrants, who will face an increasingly normalised wave of vilification.

home office immigration
Opinion

Dawn Butler MP: How I helped Labour Prevent Another Windrush Scandal

Dawn Butler
6 December, 2024

When a constituent approached me about their eVisa, which is an online record of immigration status, it served as a warning about a potential risk of a repeat of the Windrush scandal.

A photo of Keir Starmer making a speech at a lectern.
News

‘Starmer must avoid Biden’s strategic mistake’: Reactions to Keir Starmer’s ‘Plan for Change’

Olivia Barber
6 December, 2024

‘Unless economic growth delivers material benefits for more of us, Starmer risks suffering the same fate as US President Biden.’

Right-Wing Watch

Two cats in a sack – The Conservative leadership contest enters its final stretch

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
27 October, 2024

Once again, the Conservatives seem poised to serve up another political gift to Labour. If Labour manage to blow it, they’ll only have themselves to blame.

News

Spain’s prime minister unveils pro-immigration policy, citing moral duty and economic growth

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 October, 2024

‘I want citizens to understand that this is not a battle between Spaniards and foreigners, or Christians and Muslims or saints and criminals. It is a battle between truth and lies, between tales and data, between what is in the interests of our society and the interests of a few who see fear and hatred of foreigners as their only path to power.’

A stick reading "Vote Labour"
News

Labour members to protest own party conference over deportation plans

Chris Jarvis
21 August, 2024

Labour Campaign for Free Movement called Yvette Cooper’s announcement ‘disgraceful’

Yvette Cooper in Downing Street
News

Yvette Cooper’s deportation plans face criticism from migration experts and campaigners

Chris Jarvis
21 August, 2024

“Detention & deportation are brutal & useless for anything but enriching private companies that enact it.”

Lee Anderson

Lee Anderson left humiliated after his ‘illegal immigrants’ post spectacularly backfires

Basit Mahmood
1 August, 2024

Anderson had to issue a correction to his post

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