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.