Date: 25 February 2016
“When the PM and Home Secretary are both relieved to see net migration at over 300,000, it shows how far removed from reality the sub-100,000 target really is,” said British Future in response to new ONS immigration statistics.
Date: 24 February 2016
Both sides in the EU referendum debate are trying to have their cake and eat it on immigration. It’s a diet that’s leaving voters feeling rather bilious, writes Steve Ballinger
Date: 22 February 2016
Government and employers will need to adapt to new trends in migration revealed by new ONS migration statistics, with declining EU net migration and rising applications from outside the EU. In the short term, that should mean visa applications from the NHS for high-skilled non-EU migrants being excluded from the Government’s monthly quota.
Date: 16 February 2016
A new Leicester project is bringing together members of the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities to learn and celebrate their shared history of contribution to Britain in the First World War.
Date: 5 February 2016
Advocates on all sides of the EU debate, including Labour voices, will need to do much more to reach the undecided voters who will determine the outcome of the referendum, says Sunder Katwala
Date: 4 February 2016
A new ComRes poll for the BBC shows a conflicting picture of British public attitudes to the refugee crisis. Can people be sympathetic to those fleeing war and abuse in Syria, while still being worried about how we handle the numbers? The answer, writes Steve Ballinger, is that they can – and they are.
Date: 26 January 2016
In the run-up to the public vote, British Future will engage leading voices on all sides of the debate, asking them to set out the competing visions of the future which they believe can win the confidence and support of modern Britain. In this speech Steven Woolfe, UKIP immigration spokesman, sets out his view of the positive vision with which the Leave campaign can win the EU referendum.
Date: 21 January 2016
Can the business community sit out the EU referendum until it all blows over? asks British Future trustee Simon Clark
Date: 20 January 2016
New British Future trustee Imam Qari Asim on the Prime Minister’s visit to his Leeds Mosque – and why the PM’s push to get more people speaking English is important for everyone, not just British Muslims
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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