Tag: UK immigration

Reduced migrant inflow after Brexit could boost Britain’s economy by forcing businesses to improve productivity, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

A Conservative MP faced furious shouts of “disgrace” during a bid to stop a chain migration bill which he warned is not in the British people’s interests, and was likely to encourage would-be migrants to set out on dangerous trips

Pledging to “end family break-up through the immigration system”, the Labour Party is announcing it will scrap a number of laws holding back mass migration.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has argued that Scotland needs to open its borders because Scottish people in history have moved abroad.

The asylum process in Britain is “a lottery” where decisions often rest on the personal views of decision makers, whistleblowers have claimed.

The BBC has attacked Anglicans after a study revealed that nearly nine out of 10 want immigration levels “reduced”, claiming that Christianity demands support for open borders.

Rough sleeping has soared to record levels, with nearly 5,000 people estimated sleeping rough last year in England, while councils rolled out the red carpet for refugees.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced the government is working to ‘change the narrative around migration to persuade Scots that the nation needs huge numbers of people from abroad.

French officials have revealed there were more than 100,000 attempts on Britain’s border last year from Calais, where violence has risen along with the number of illegal immigrants returning to the port town since the ‘Jungle’ camp was cleared.

A new report has revealed the extent to which Britain’s housing crisis has been driven by mass immigration, with young people “paying the price” for this policy through ever-rising rents.

A report by think tank Quilliam has found that more than eight out of ten men convicted of grooming gang offences have an ‘Asian’ background, while victims are “almost exclusively white girls”.

Official new immigration figures show that while net migration to Britain has fallen by the largest amount on record in the last year, the number still remains in the hundreds of thousands.

Migrants from outside the European Union (EU) were handed residence permits to live in Britain at the rate of one every 36 seconds last year, new data has revealed. During 2016, the UK granted 865,894 non-EU migrants the right to

Brits are benefitting from a rise in wages for the first time in years, after the Brexit vote and a subsequent shortage of labour across sectors, the Bank of England believes.

Successive British governments have been accused of misleading the public on mass migration’s effect on the housing crisis, in a report revealing migrants headed 90 per cent of new households in England over the past decade.

Syrian refugees who were resettled in Britain last year are dissatisfied with the NHS, and unhappy about being placed outside of cities, according to a UN report.

Channel 4’s latest rebrand has been hailed as a “celebration of immigration in Brexit Britain”, with a new short featuring the UK broadcaster’s logo ferrying migrants across the English Channel.

UK and United Nations (UN) officials were accused of “shocking behaviour” after data revealed that Muslims have been prioritised over Christians fleeing Islamic State for asylum in Britain.

A judge has ruled that Britain cannot deport a Saudi migrant who has been previously jailed for a host of crimes because he has been “devoting his time to charity”.

A Kuwaiti migrant who arrived in the UK illegally beat and raped a British woman on a riverbank just two weeks after he was given leave to remain in the UK.

More than a million illegal immigrants living in Britain unlawfully are unlikely ever to be removed, MPs have been told.

Debunking business leaders’ claims that Britain will continue to need unskilled EU workers after Brexit, a new study has shown that far from benefitting the UK taxpayer cheap migrant labour actually costs the exchequer more than £12 million a day, or £4.4 billion a year.

An asylum seeker who posed as a ‘Justin Bieber lookalike’ online to groom children into performing sex acts on webcam has been found guilty of 14 sexual offences, including a sex attack on a six-year-old girl.

Britain needs “open borders” because people in the UK are “old and creaky”, according to the Labour Campaign for Free Movement (LCFM), a group backed by MPs. Thousands of Labour activists, along with union bosses and several Labour MEPs and MPs

Tony Blair, who opened Britain’s borders while prime minister, has called for tougher immigration controls in exchange for stopping Brexit.

After the deportation of an Afghan man was halted when a pilot refused to fly with him on board, open borders campaigners in Britain have vowed to target airlines and passengers in their quest to block migrant removals.

Plans to make it easier for millions of visitors from outside Europe to enter Britain threaten to undermine border security, the government has been warned.

Rwandan migrant Derrick Mutambuka has been jailed for more than nine years for violently raping a woman after he became ‘sexually aroused’ in a Sunderland nightclub.

The Church of England demanded that Britain slashes the fee to apply for citizenship, declaring the £1,282 charge to be “prohibitive” to low-paid migrants.

The only way to protect Poland from Islamic terror attacks is to not allow Muslims to migrate en masse, a British-born, senior MEP for the nation’s ruling party said on Monday. “When it comes to reducing the chances of Poland

Conservative Home Secretary Amber Rudd stood in for the absent Theresa May and warned the country they had “seen the coalition of chaos in action,” at a seven-way BBC debate Wednesday evening where party representatives clashed ahead of the general

A growing number of radical Muslims are flocking to move from France to Britain, where generous welfare payments, lack of scrutiny from the authorities, and the ease with which families can practice strict Islam have earned the UK a reputation as a halal paradise for Salafists who are unable to secure visas for Saudi Arabia.

The mother of a schoolgirl rape victim has said Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was part of a group who waged a two-month campaign of intimidation against her daughter and family.

Non-Europeans can get residency in the UK by marrying citizens of European Union (EU) nations in overseas ceremonies which they do not even have to attend, thanks to freedom of movement laws.

Promises to cut migrant numbers, references to immigrants as “illegal”, or asylum seekers as “failed”, and bringing up pressure on public services in the context of the number of people entering the UK are all unacceptable talking points for politicians according to a new ‘etiquette guide’ published by campaigners ahead of the general election.