Media Reports Archive : July 2016


Third of commuters have to stand on trains

Britain’s trains are so crowded that more than a third of commuters have to stand on some routes in the morning rush hour.

29 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Times
Theresa May 'wants and expects' to protect rights of Poles in UK

Theresa May has said she 'wants and expects' to be able to protect the rights of Polish citizens in the UK, if British expats' rights are protected.

29 Jul 2016 - Media Report: BBC News
May demands an EU divorce tailor-made for Britain

Theresa May has demanded a Brexit deal tailor-made for Britain, warning that she would not accept an agreement already “on the shelf”.

28 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Times
'No single market without freedom of movement', Juncker tells Merkel and May as he slaps down migration deal

The President of the EU Commission has confirmed Britain would lose unrestricted access to the single market if it did not accept freedom of movement.

26 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Mail Online
Nearly SIX THOUSAND foreign criminals still in UK after being released from prison

Almost 1,800 foreign criminals who should have been deported are still here five years after being freed from jail.

26 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Sun
Theresa May plans new immigration crackdown on student visas

The new government is preparing the ground for a fresh crackdown on immigration amid concerns that universities have become an easy route in.

25 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Telegraph
The Home Office STILL is not fit for purpose, blasts Jonathan Foreman

The UK may be about to see a sea change in the often chaotic ways that it has managed migration in recent years.

25 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Express
McGuinness 'cannot see how Common Travel Area can survive'

Martin McGuinness has said he cannot see how the Common Travel Area between Northern Ireland and the Republic could survive in Brexit negotiations.

22 Jul 2016 - Media Report: BBC News
Surge in migrant ‘lorry drops’ overwhelms border officers

The number of migrants found in the backs of lorries or cars in Britain more than doubled to 6,400 last year.

22 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Times
Welcome words on immigration, Mrs May - now for action on the issue voters desperately want dealt with after years of broken promises and lip service

What voters desperately want, after years of broken promises and politicians paying lip service to their concerns, is action and results.

21 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Daily Mail
Amber Rudd aims to reduce UK immigration to 'sustainable levels'

Home secretary casts doubts on future of government’s target to cut net migration to tens of thousands during this parliament.

20 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Guardian
Frank Field: We need a blueprint that delivers new homes and builders

The Brexit era should bring investment and skills-led growth. Two particular programmes are required: on homes and transport.

20 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Times
Britain will need 750,000 extra school places within the next TEN years due to a migration-fuelled population boom new figures show

Three quarters of a million new school places are needed in England in the next ten years amid a baby boom fuelled by migration.

18 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Mail Online
Commission stays course on migration after Brexit

The European Commission’s migration chief says there are no plans to rethink the bloc’s migration policy after the British vote to leave the EU.

12 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Politico
The number of Polish passport enquiries rises by a staggering 10,000 per cent since Brexit vote

Private companies are now also advertising Polish citizenship and passports for sale

11 Jul 2016 - Media Report: The Sun
Health tourists jump NHS queue: Foreign patients given eye surgery while Britons wait for months

Health tourists are jumping the queue ahead of NHS patients for life-changing cataract operations, an investigation has revealed.

11 Jul 2016 - Media Report: Mail Online

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