Before the General Election, Ipsos MORI found immigration to be the forth most important issue concerning voters. In March YouGov found Labour was perceived as the worst major party on dealing with the issue of immigration…
At the New Statesman hustings last night, the most lively, passionate, interesting and important exchanges came during the question on immigration.
Ed Balls devotes much of his recent Observer article to a discussion of migration policy, and in the process makes some claims that don’t stand up.
If the Coalition Government is serious about Britain’s economic vitality, it will drop the immigration quota and focus on producing more high-value jobs and the workers to fill them.
Migration Watch are plain wrong to suggest that the introduction of the Points-Based System for managing immigration has led to an increase in the number of economic migrants entering the UK.
In an essay for this week’s New Statesman, Jon Cruddas MP attacks the “new orthodoxy” on immigration and welfare recipients” which has emerged since the election.
New statistics out today show a continued and rapid decline in net immigration to the UK: net migration to the UK in the year to September 2009 was 142,000.
Because of internalised homophobia many LGBT refugees stay underground and don’t try and regularise their situation until they become desperate.
Leadership candidates are talking about immigration. Neil O’Brien asks: “Will Labour now become an anti-immigration party?” There’s no reason why they should.
The new coalition government’s policy programme made a welcome commitment to “end the detention of children for immigration purposes”.
