Immigration cap still doesn’t add up
Theresa May yesterday announced the introduction of a temporary cap on skilled immigration to the UK, a policy which the FT estimates will cost every UK household £300 a year in extra taxes or reduced spending.
Immigration
Do we really know what voters think about immigration?
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…
Leadership race comes alive with debate on immigration
At the New Statesman hustings last night, the most lively, passionate, interesting and important exchanges came during the question on immigration.
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.
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.