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Immigration

Right-wing media watch – Starmer’s immigration crackdown will never appease the right-wing press

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 May, 2025

No matter how hard Labour tries to demonstrate control over immigration, the right-wing media will keep moving the goalposts, and will almost always favour the headline-grabbing provocateur that is Nigel Farage. 

News

Government’s ‘cruel’ immigration policies could cause exodus of migrant nurses, RCN warns

Olivia Barber
15 May, 2025

The union has said Labour’s ‘hostile environment on steroids’ will do ‘great damage’ to the NHS and social care

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage giving a new year's message at Blenheim Palace
News

Nigel Farage unable to say what his own cap on immigration would be in car-crash interview

Basit Mahmood
13 May, 2025

Farage can’t answer the question…

Trump
News

Trump eyes Rwanda for migrant deportations, echoing UK’s controversial scheme

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
11 May, 2025

Trump’s proposal, would potentially make Rwanda the first African nation to accept third-country deportees from the US.

News

Immigration key to solving Britain’s construction crisis – say experts

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 March, 2025

‘The government has assumed restricting migrant workers will lead to higher wages and productivity but that doesn’t happen automatically.’

Supermarket in Spain
News

Migration fuels Spain’s economic boom, proof that xenophobia isn’t the answer

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
22 February, 2025

Spain’s socialist government champions immigration not only for humanitarian reasons but as an economic growth strategy.

News

Tories wasted £715 million of taxpayers’ money on failed Rwanda plan

Olivia Barber
17 February, 2025

Labour is now repealing the Safety of Rwanda Act

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.

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