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The Ecuadorean government has told Venezuelans trying to enter their country that they can no longer come without a passport. That means ID cards are no longer valid, leaving people stranded at the border. The move comes a day before the Venezuelan government knocks five zeros off its currency to try to get a grip…
On a visit to Coventry, the Chancellor said it showed the economy had “recovered sharply” – but weaker international demand for British goods means manufacturing has continued to slide.
Gary Gibbon
Facebook have given the DCMS committee data on the ads Vote Leave sent out during the EU Referendum. We’ve crunched the numbers to see what messages they were trying to get out.
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl discusses President Trump and her country’s attitude to migration.
Ska Keller is a German Green MEP. She’s with our Europe Editor, Matt Frei, in Brussels.
Arriving in Brussels, Theresa May insisted “we’ve already seen flexibility from the EU.” But hopes of progress in negotiations on Brexit are surely at odds with the fact that the issue dominating EU diplomacy at the moment is migration. Only this morning Angela Merkel warned that “migration could end up determining Europe’s destiny.”
After five days at sea, a charity rescue ship with 230 migrants on board has been allowed to dock in Malta. It was turned away by the newly-formed Italian government, which has a policy of not allowing charity rescue ships to use its ports. The migration issue is shaking up politics around the continent, not…
Two years after Brexit what does Britain think about immigration? It was an issue that defined the referendum, and in the intervening months it has stayed high on the agenda. So while the scandal of how Windrush immigrants were treated by the Home Office saw the resignation of the Home Secretary, and discussions about the…
If Brexit means an end to freedom of movement, Britain will need a brand new immigration policy. Indeed it was the reason many people voted to leave. And while many have thrown up their hands in horror at what’s been going on at the Mexican border or in Italy and Hungary, an exclusive poll for…
Gary Gibbon
Nigel Farage says “the Tory posh boys” sang his song on immigration in the latter stages of the referendum campaign and are now running away from the issue and talking of a “liberal Brexit”.
Almost three quarters of British adults still back Theresa May’s tough stance on reducing immigration, a Deltapoll survey for Channel 4 News reveals.
The United States’ policy of separating migrant chidren from their parents had incensed opinion in America and around the world. The UN’s Human Rights Council criticised the policy, which prompted the US to withdraw from the body, branding it a “cesspool of political bias”. But, in an unexpected move, in the last hour Donald Trump…
If you were holding your breath for the immigration white paper best to breathe out now. Much delayed and much anticipated, it seems that the wait is nowhere near over. Despite an Instruction from Theresa May to get it out before the summer recess, Sajid Javid seems to be of the view that that’s too…
The Home Office has announced that it is going to relax its own rules and allow more skilled workers from outside the European Union into the UK following complaints from bosses within the National Health Services about a recruitment crisis. At the moment, just over twenty thousand non-EU skilled workers are allowed in each year and…
