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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Social affairs
    Liberal Americans consider moving to UK after Trump win, lawyers say

    Advisers cite rise in US citizens weighing up emigration amid fears over introduction of socially conservative policies

    People queueing to get their passports checked by officials
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    UK to target people smugglers with travel bans and social media curbs

    Announcement comes after data shows small-boat crossings rose 25% in 2024

    A group thought to be migrants arrive in Dover on a Border Force vessel
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    Cabinet warned Blair against free movement of new EU citizens from Poland

    Concern expressed by John Prescott and Jack Straw in 2004 over possible migration wave later borne out in Brexit vote

    Jack Straw, John Prescott and Tony Blair
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Small-boat crossings to UK rise by fifth but remain below European peers

    Starmer has vowed to crack down on criminal gangs bringing migrants across English Channel

    Migrants board a smuggler’s inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Skilled migrants contribute more to public finances than working Britons, report finds

    Migration Advisory Committee figures highlight trade-offs of tighter UK immigration policy

    People waiting in a queue to enter the UK at passport control at Heathrow airport
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    The Economics Show podcast30 min listen
    Martin Wolf interviews Lant Pritchett: Is mass immigration inevitable?

    The renowned development economist on why migration is essential

  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Labour-aligned think-tank urges Starmer to set UK immigration target

    The system would include sub-targets for different types of visas

    People queue at UK Border Passport Control at Heathrow airport
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    Does the UK have enough workers to ‘get Britain building’?

    The Labour government dreams of kick-starting a housebuilding boom, but the construction sector relies heavily on migrants to plug a skills gap

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Sarah O'Connor
    Economists need to get their story straight on immigration

    Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow

    Farm workers in overalls and hairnets sort through freshly cut asparagus
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Net migration to the UK hit record 900,000 in 2023

    Figure has since fallen 20% following changes made by the previous Conservative government

    Border Force check the passports of passengers arriving at Gatwick Airport
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Home Office
    Rushed deal to house asylum seekers attacked by UK watchdog

    Tory government paid more than double what previous owner spent to purchase derelict former prison

    The Northeye site in Bexhill, East Sussex
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Global migration
    Migration to rich countries hits record high in 2023

    Surge has helped economies recover from inflationary crisis, but has also prompted voter backlash

    Montage of a chart with a person walking in an airport
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    ReviewBrexit
    Immigration: How British Politics Failed — Cameron, Corbyn and others on what went wrong

    Former prime ministers and advisers discuss 30 years of misjudged policies and promises in BBC two-parter

    A crowded dingy carries passengers in life jackets across the ocean
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Social affairs
    Asylum housing provider Clearsprings’ profits jump on high demand

    Bumper profits risk fuelling government concerns over large amounts paid to private companies to handle politically sensitive issue

    Napier Barracks, a former military barracks in Folkestone that is being used to house asylum seekers
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    UK visa process for AI experts should be streamlined, says government adviser

    Recommendations from Matt Clifford on boosting the tech industry also include special zones for data centres

    Close-up of hand installing AI chip on futuristic circuit board
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    UK ministers explore using break clauses in asylum housing contracts

    Home Office aims to revise terms or terminate after being ‘shocked’ by private companies’ profits

    A group of people, wearing life jackets and some wrapped in blankets, disembark from a Border Force vessel in Dover, Kent. They are being assisted by officials in high-visibility vests
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    UK to slash overseas aid in Budget as asylum seeker costs rise

    International development organisations warn country’s contribution could slump to its lowest level in 17 years

    People distribute UK Aid food and blankets
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Immigration drives fastest UK population growth for half a century

    Official data highlights country’s demographic challenges

    Shoppers on Oxford Street, London
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

    Row breaks out over leadership contender’s comments as Tory annual conference gets under way in Birmingham

    Kemi Badenoch
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Overseas student and worker curbs will cost UK business over £40bn

    Home Office assessments come as new Labour government presses ahead with curbs on immigration

    Students from LSE celebrate graduating
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK settles legal aid fee dispute with immigration lawyers

    Law firm Duncan Lewis drops case against government after justice secretary agrees to review pay

    Criminal defence barristers gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London to protest over legal aid fee rates
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    InterviewConservative party UK
    Jenrick accuses UK Treasury of ‘gaslighting’ over benefits of migration

    Tory leadership frontrunner says GDP figures ‘juiced up’ by arrivals

    Robert Jenrick
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Explainer
    Can Italian tactics help the UK stop migrant boats?

    Meloni has reduced the flow, but some methods are controversial

    Montage shows prime minister Sir Keir Starmer with his Italian counterpart Georgia Meloni against an Italian flag
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK studying Italian plans to process asylum claims in Albania, says Meloni

    Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

    British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

    Keir Starmer with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during a meeting at Blenheim Palace in July
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