Date: 3 July 2016
84% of the British public supports letting EU migrants stay, according to new ICM research – including three-quarters of Leave voters
Date: 2 July 2016
British Asians voted for both Remain and Leave in significant numbers. The ability of the Leave campaign to win Asian as well as white votes undoubtedly made a significant contribution to results in Bradford, Leicester and Birmingham. Yet the Leave campaign arguably still underperformed with British Asian voters.
Date: 1 July 2016
Sunder Katwala on how Britain will set aside political divisions and come together to mark the Somme centenary
Date: 25 June 2016
Wales voted narrowly for Brexit, but the country is united on another European adventure, writes Ashok Ahir.
Date: 24 June 2016
Responding to Britain’s historic referendum decision to leave the EU, Sunder Katwala, Director of independent identity and integration thinktank British Future, […]
Date: 24 June 2016
The public vote to Leave the EU will be a test of political leadership – and of all of us as citizens too, writes Sunder Katwala
Date: 23 June 2016
The EU Referendum was not a vote for a Government, writes Nicolas Webb. While the Leave campaign did attempt to […]
Date: 23 June 2016
Today, an important choice about Britain’s future will be in the hands of its citizens, writes Sunder Katwala.
Date: 22 June 2016
People all over the world will gather today to honour Jo Cox MP and to show that we have #MoreInCommon than that which divides us. Steve Ballinger details today’s events and what they hope to achieve.
In Control and Compassion @britishfuture proposed bringing back civic and faith-led voluntary returns programme that would be humane & cost effective. NB, crucially, this is on the basis of hearing asylum claims in the UK first, not refusing to take asylum claims here.
Times splash is Labour repeating its policy since at last last Autumn: have to assess asylum claims here. Government does this too, after saying it won't be doing it & will have to do it again (for everyone it can't remove) if flights ever start
Sept2023
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/13/starmer-on-tour-solutions-migration-crisis#:~:text=Keir%20Starmer%20has%20revealed%20that,gangs%E2%80%9D%20behind%20small%20boat%20crossings
Visas issued to skilled workers, health and care staff and students have fallen by a quarter compared with last year, writes @matt_dathan @thetimes
Immigration levels falling after visa curbs
Visas issued to skilled workers, health and care staff and students have fallen by a quarter compared with last year
www.thetimes.co.uk
This was always going to be a febrile week for political leadership. My Eastern Eye column on Humza Yousaf's emotional departure & whether Sadiq Khan and Rishi Sunak will survive the next fortnight https://www.easterneye.biz/scotland-humza-yousaf-resign-sunder-katwala/
Our @sundersays will be speaking to @SkyNews at 5.30-6 about the Rwanda scheme and the government's latest challenges to operationalise the policy
More than half of asylum seekers allocated for removal to Rwanda cannot be found, according to...
The first deportation flights to Rwanda are planned for this July, which indicates no one who arrived in Britain ...
news.sky.com
“Yousaf’s downfall had as little to do with his ethnicity or faith as Liz Truss’s had to do with her gender,” writes @sundersays for @EasternEye
Scots shock kicks off a febrile week in UK politics - EasternEye
By Sunder Katwala
www.easterneye.biz
Rachel Chinouriri, 25, talks to the BBC on why she wanted to include England and its flag on her album cover, referencing "my upbringing, my home, my life". (BBC also quotes Kehinde Andrews criticising her choice because he doesn't like it himself)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-68848509
As royal assent is granted today to the Rwanda Bill, a poll shows only a third of Tory voters believe the deportation plan will succeed in stopping migrants crossing the Channel. @SuellaBraverman @RobertJenrick https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/25/rwanda-policy-wont-stop-the-boats-tory-voters-say/
Read the report here:
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/governments-illegal-migration-act-and-rwanda-plan-to-cause-system-meltdown-costing-billions/
New @refugeecouncil analysis today projects that even if Rwanda removals do start, the Illegal Migration Act will leave over 115,000 people stuck in limbo, "shut out of the asylum system but unable to be removed from the country" at a potential annual cost of £6.2 Billion.
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