The ‘How we can actually stop the boats’ report draws on international evidence to argue that a scaled-up ‘routes and returns’ approach, based on the framework of the existing UK-France deal and learning from the US experience, could significantly reduce small boat crossings.
It includes new Ipsos polling, which finds strong public support for a ‘routes and returns’ strategy at scale.
The authors urge the Home Secretary to expand the UK-France ‘one in one out’ deal by a factor of ten or twenty times. This would return to France the vast majority of those who arrive without permission in small boats, while at the same time welcoming a significant number of people with the right to claim asylum via an expanded, regularised route to the UK.
The report “demands serious and urgent consideration by the government,” says former Labour Home Secretary Charles Clarke.
"Her focus on so-called ‘pull-factors’ – an approach tried and tested without success by Conservative Home Secretaries before her – has been shown not to work." Our @sundersays on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's speech today.
The Modern Cockney Festival opens next week with events throughout March, including on the 16th marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.
More details at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/moderncockneyfestival
'From Diwali to Discord: What Happened to Leicester’s Shared Belonging?'
As a new report examines the 2022 Leicester unrest, our Avaes Mohammed speaks to people from South Asian communities in the city about what needs to change. [1/2]
"Rupert Lowe looks like creating a new BNP for the online age – a project doomed to fail," writes @sundersays for @easterneye [1/2]
Matt Goodwin's candidacy in Denton & Gorton "illuminates the balance of risks & rewards for Reform, presenting itself as a potential govt, in embracing the sharper edges of the online right." Our @sundersays for @TheNewWorldmag [1/2]
Moving the goalposts on ‘earned settlement’ is a risky gamble for this government – @sundersays writes for @EasternEye [1/2]
"It is important to have an open and frank debate about immigration and integration," writes @sundersays on Jim Ratcliffe's 'colonised' comments. "It helps no-one when public voices use inflammatory language." [1/2]
A new British South Asian Bridgers Project is bringing together and supporting the ‘bridging’ voices who are working to build inter-community connection and defuse tensions among the UK’s largest ethnic minority group. [1/5]
Starmer's future remains uncertain – but "it may be a few months yet before we find out who governs Britain for the remaining three years of this parliament," writes
@sundersays for @easterneye
Changes at Number Ten, but Starmer’s future remains uncertain
Most of the Westminster commentariat predict that Starmer will prove to be a caretaker prime minister on borrowed time
www.easterneye.biz
Remember, you only hav until next Tues, 10 Feb, to apply for the Windrush Day 2026 Grant Scheme - details below
