Tory leadership frontrunner Theresa May has said she wants to “guarantee” position of EU migrants living in the UK and warned that cuts to migration won’t be coming quickly. Speaking on ITV’s Peston on Sunday Mrs May said, “I want
Campaign group Migration Watch UK writes: During last night’s ITV debate Nigel Farage claimed that we would have to build a home every four minutes, night and day in order to house new migrants and their families. On the ITV
Thousands of foreign offenders are being housed in British jails or even walking the streets despite the government pledging to deport them. A report by the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee found that there are now more than
Britain could cut net migration by 100,000 a year after leaving the European Union by implementing some very simple policy changes, the head of a leading migration watchdog has claimed. Writing in The Spectator, Lord Green of Deddington, chairman of
Britain’s Home Office dismissed concerns over people-smuggling across the English Channel as “not significant” just a matter of months ago. Ministers in the government department played down fears despite border inspectors issuing a highly critical report on Border Force’s ability
Up to half a million migrants and their families who have fled from the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere could head to the UK after 2020 under European Union (EU) free movement rules. Migration Watch UK says that migrants
Mass immigration from the European Union is having a “disproportionate” impact on Britain and damaging social cohesion, a leaked government analysis has said. The document states that citizens of other EU states are overwhelmingly the best performers in Britain’s jobs
Chancellor George Osborne has unwittingly admitted that the government will miss its immigration targets by a significant margin. The UK Treasury released figures today suggesting that each British household would be £4,300 “worse off” if Britain leaves the European Union
Many thousands of parents will miss out on the first choice of primary school for their children due to uncontrolled mass immigration, a government minister has said. Employment Minister Priti Patel made her comments on the day parents across England
The number of migrants trying to enter Britain with false papers rose by 70 per cent last year, according to an official analysis. The rise comes amid serious failings in the fingerprinting and collection of biometric data on asylum seekers
Thousands of hard-left protesters descended on London Saturday afternoon — ostensibly to protest against racism — clashing with counter-demonstrators of the nationalist group Britain First. Exclusive footage shows the far left demonstrators shouting: “If it wasn’t for the coppers you’d be
Nearly a third of people arrested in London are not British, the head of the capital’s police force has said. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, chief of London’s Metropolitan Police, said 28 to 29 per cent of people arrested in London per
Nearly one in 10 births in the UK in 2014 were to citizens from other European Union (EU) countries, according to figures from Eurostat. In statistics that show the scale of EU immigration into Britain, the country has the highest
Britain cannot deport tens of thousands of illegal migrants for the simple reason that it has no power to do so, a government minister said last night. Richard Harrington made the startling admission and added they will stay because they had “no
One of the big questions arising from today’s immigration statistics is how there can be 260,000 immigrants from the European Union (EU) over the past year yet around 650,000 National Insurance Numbers (NINos) handed to EU citizens. According to the
The British government should let in a further 3,000 migrant children, a cross-party committee of MPs has demanded. The government has already committed itself to taking 20,000 migrants direct from refugee camps in the Middle East and resettling them in
One in every three Londoners is now born abroad, with vast swathes of the UK capital dominated by particular nationalities. In certain boroughs, such as Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Brent, more than half the population is foreign-born, with Indian
Migrant are being allowed to settle permanently in Britain on the basis of unverified claims of domestic abuse, an immigration watchdog has found. David Bolt, chief inspector of borders and immigration, warned the system where migrants from outside the European
The growth in wages for UK workers is set to stall at just two per cent next year thanks to the large number of migrant workers waiting to fill vacancies, the Guardian has admitted. Referring to data from the Chartered
More than a third of doctors on Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) were born abroad, new figures reveal, raising fears of patient safety as medics struggle to make themselves understood. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Around 300 potential terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants try to enter Britain each day, with 99,500 alerts issued by the National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC) last year. Figures show the number of potentially dangerous passengers being detected has risen by
The British government has given up looking for 10,000 missing migrants because to search for them would be a “drain on resources”, according to the chief inspector of borders and immigration. David Bolt said that a further 30,406 failed asylum
A Polish rapist was able to enter the UK despite a previous conviction and attack two women after changing his name and posing as a wealthy “sugar daddy”. Rafal Bargiel subjected the women to “humiliating and degrading” sex acts after
The British government has given up trying to cut record levels of immigration into the country, a former senior aide has claimed. Nick Timothy, who was chief of staff to Home Secretary Theresa May until this year’s election, said there
The number of asylum applications in the UK has increased by a fifth in the space of a year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The new data shows that there were 29,024 applications of asylum in the
Net migration into the UK has hit a record high of 336,000 in the year up to June 2015, representing a 34 per cent increase in the space of a year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics
More than 300,000 Britons have signed a government petition calling for an immediate halt to all immigration into the UK until the so-called Islamic State is defeated. The petition has been live since September but received relatively little attention until
Over half a million failed asylum seekers are free to live in the UK due to a funding brawl between Theresa May’s Home Office and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The vast back log of appeals lodged by the migrants cannot be processed
