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FactCheck: the Conservatives’ and Labour’s records on legal migration
Net migration is down 10 per cent – but still near a record high.
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Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.
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‘What do you do when there’s no room at the inn?’ – Voters in Stoke-on-Trent give their view on immigration
Stopping the boats has been a pivotal pledge for Rishi Sunak. And the policy around sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is also likely to be a key election issue for the Conservative party. But where does it feature in the list of priorities for voters?
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Immigration minister Robert Jenrick resigns after Sunak’s emergency Rwanda bill – reports
In the last few minutes, reports say Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister over the Rwanda migrant bill, as Labour accused the Government of ‘total chaos’.
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‘Everywhere I go we have a shortage of key people,’ says Tory MP on immigration curbs
We spoke to the Conservative Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee Steve Brine.
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UK reverses some incentives for foreign workers in bid to cut migration
The Government are describing it as the “biggest clampdown on legal migration ever”.
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‘Migration figures should come down, but we won’t set a specific target’, says Shadow Home Secretary
No government minister was available to talk about Immigration today, but Cathy went to Westminster to speak to the Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and began by asking her if Labour would cut net migration.
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UK’s rising migration figures, how did we get here?
Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. We look at the numbers.
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UK net migration from 2022 revised up from 606,000 to a record 745,000
Net migration hit a record high in 2022, after the Office for National Statistics revised its previous estimate. And it’s not a small revision. It now says net migration – which is the number of people coming to the UK minus the number leaving wasn’t 606,000 in 2022 as it previously estimated, but 745,000 –…
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Sunak and Meloni unite to demand tougher action from EU on illegal migration
Rishi Sunak has teamed up with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni to demand tougher action from the EU to stop illegal migrants reaching Europe.
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Theresa May: Hurricane and invasion ‘not language that I would use’ to describe immigration
Today, she launched a commission to take that fight global – but will the Tories’ rightward tilt see her own achievements go the way of HS2?
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Is migration creating ‘fortress’ Europe?
With elections approaching in both Poland and Slovakia migration is back at the top of the agenda in the EU too.
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Migration is ‘existential challenge to the west’ – Home Sec calls for immigration rethink
It’s not enough to fear discrimination ‘simply for being gay or a woman’ to qualify for asylum – according to Suella Braverman – who’s been setting out her case against the global system for accepting refugees.
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Detainees at immigration centre subjected to inhumane treatment, says inquiry
The first public inquiry into abuses at an immigration detention centre in the UK found a ‘toxic culture’ – where detainees were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment, ‘explicit racism’ and frequent misuse of force.
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Tackling migration ‘not a task just for one country’, UNHCR calls for solidarity amongst European states
We spoke to Stella Nanou, UNHCR spokesperson for Greece and asked her about the discovery of 18 bodies in a forest in northern Greece following days of wildfires.