Balls’ EU immigration claims don’t stand up
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.
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Govt should drop immigration quota & produce more high-value workers
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.
More misleading claims about migration
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.
Cruddas attacks “new orthodoxy” on immigration and welfare
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.
Will the immigration cap just be legislating for existing trends?
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.
Not all gay asylum-seekers sent back to face persecution
Because of internalised homophobia many LGBT refugees stay underground and don’t try and regularise their situation until they become desperate.
Labour must not become an anti-immigration party
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.
Scotland welcomes coalition policy to end child detention
The new coalition government’s policy programme made a welcome commitment to “end the detention of children for immigration purposes”.
Which way now for immigration policy?
The coalition government has compromised on immigration. But while the end to child detention is a victory for campaigners, there are huge problems with the proposed cap.
Vote 2010: Immigration
For progressives, the lesson is that policy isn’t enough; we need a new narrative on immigration, and the next government will face the challenge of writing it.