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Immigration will be a key battleground in the run-up to the election. How much do you really know?
Any attempt to limit EU migrants coming to the UK would be illegal, says Jose Manuel Barroso. However, Tory party chairman Grant Shapps argues that Britain “needs to be able to control its borders.”
There are rumblings of a big announcement from David Cameron on EU immigration. But he may have little room for manoeuvre.
A demonstration is held outside the Home Office by friends of Rubel Ahmed, who died at Morton Hall immigration centre in Lincolnshire two weeks ago.
The British government is to provide £12m over three years in a joint deal with the French to tackle illegal immigrants at Calais.
Today’s immigration figures showed an increase of 68,000 people coming to the UK, meaning it is almost impossible for the Conservatives to honour their election pledge to bring down net migration.
Channel 4 News talks to Maria Isabella Acevedo, former cleaner of Tory MP Mark Harper, who resigned as immigration minister when he says he found out she did not have permission to work in the UK.
Britons are showing an increasingly hardline attitude towards immigrants, according to a major new survey of social attitudes.
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid says immigrants to the UK need to learn to speak English to “respect our way of life”, as posturing over immigration intensifies ahead of the European elections.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow spent the day in Govanhill – home to settled and more recent immigrant communities asking how they see themselves and how they might be voting.
Anas Sarwar the deputy leader of the Scottish Labour Party and the SNP’s Humza Yousaf, the Minister for External Affairs in the Scottish Governmen, discuss identity and independence.
Ukip’s posters have caused a bit of a stir, and the party has branded comparisons with the British National Party as “ridiculous”. But what do they actually say, and how do they compare with others?
Ukip has come under fire after the party unveiled a series of anti-immigration European election campaign posters that it plans to display in “hundreds” of sites.
Gary Gibbon
YouGov is producing an instant “who won the debate?” poll for the Sun. It’s hard to imagine that will do anything other than give the Ukip leader a massive lead.
Former defence secretary Liam Fox labels David Cameron’s pledge to cut net migration to tens of thousands as “statistical nonsense” and says the prime minister is underestimating the threat of Ukip.