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Immigration

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Diane Abbott MP: We are being swamped with reactionary immigration legislation and vile policies

Diane Abbott
27 April, 2022

‘Under successive governments we have been swamped with anti-migrant legislation and Home Office practice reflects that political outlook, and blocks claimants at every turn’.

The Sun’s ridiculous takes on Ukraine, immigration and fracking

John Lubbock
20 April, 2022

We take a look at what Britain’s biggest media platform is obsessing about this week.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch Newsletter: Everything’s bad so it’s time to bang the anti-refugee drum

John Lubbock
20 April, 2022

The Tories announce their new immigration policy just after the Prime Minister is found to have broken the law.

Tufton Street think tank Migration Watch uses Ukraine crisis to attack other refugees

John Lubbock
24 March, 2022

Migration Watch has suggested that while Ukrainian refugees are worthy of protection, those arriving on boats are ‘scammers’.

Right-Wing Watch

Right Wing Watch newsletter: week 1 March 2022

John Lubbock
7 March, 2022

This week’s newsletter looks at immigration, nationality and citizenship in the UK in light of the Ukraine conflict.

Denial of rights to Chagos Islanders exposes the cruel reality of UK citizenship policy

John Lubbock
4 March, 2022

Opposition peers in the House of Lords won a vote to give citizenship rights to descendants of Chagos Islanders evicted by the UK in the 1970s.

The Right’s demographic anxiety

John Lubbock
18 February, 2022

Racial anxieties are moving from the online far right to mainstream politics.

Boris Johnson cop26

Voters think the government is doing a bad job on almost every major issue facing the country

Basit Mahmood
4 January, 2022

On the NHS, 70 percent say the government is doing a bad job, while on crime 59 percent say the government is performing badly.

Nationality and Borders Bill

Why our MP Paul Bristow is wrong about the Nationality and Borders Bill

Amjad Iqbal Shabina Qayyum
24 December, 2021

‘The Borders Bill fundamentally undermines the UK’s obligations under international refugee law.’

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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
20 December, 2021

A roundup of progressive news

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