MigrationWatch today continued their attempt to shift the focus of debate on migration away from people movement and towards population. The press release for a new report suggested that rising numbers of births to immigrant parents will contribute to increased demand for primary school places, costing the British taxpayer £1 billion in building costs for new schools.
Speaking on the Today programme this morning, outgoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage revealed his party’s immigration prejudices. When asked why people should vote for him he said: “I don’t think that it’s acceptable that we have 75 per cent plustest
We might have expected those calling for drastic reductions in net migration to welcome the recent fall in net migration, particularly given the prominence they have given to concerns about population growth in recent years. Instead MigrationWatch and Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green chose to focus on measure of gross immigration.
Parts of the British press are willing to stretch the facts to breaking point in their eagerness to whip up fears about immigration. The Daily Mail this week claimed that: “Overseas student surge hits 110,000: And all but a tenthtest
Our guest writer is Maria Latorre, ippr The latest ippr report on re-migration argues that the unbalanced debate of migration in the UK, focusing almost entirely on inflows, has resulted in the Government feeling under pressure to continue tightening thetest
