Media Reports Archive : August 2022


Priti Patel pushed on with Rwanda scheme despite slavery warning

Priti Patel, the home secretary, pushed ahead with the Rwanda policy despite being warned that migrants faced a significant risk of modern slavery

31 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Channel migrants: Home Office pays firms to pick up people in small boats

The government has paid private companies more than £2.5m this year to help pick up people attempting to cross the Channel on small boats

31 Aug 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Priti Patel holds talks with Albanian officials and vows to stop migrants 'asylum shopping' in the UK

Priti Patel held talks with Albanian state police in London yesterday to hammer out a fast-track way of removing migrants

31 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Foreign broadband workers rushed in

Thousands of foreign workers could be fast-tracked into the UK to help telecoms companies with the rollout of gigabit broadband

31 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Brexit promised to ‘take back control’. Now foreign nationals are arriving in their droves

The implementation of a points-based immigration system has opened up half of all jobs in the UK to foreign workers

26 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Annual asylum bill surges past £2billion as claims hit 20-year high... with the number receiving handouts up by 37% in just three months

The cost of Britain’s asylum system has surged past £2billion a year for the first time amid soaring numbers of arrivals

26 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Number of long-stay visa holders in UK rockets to record 1.1m in a year... with Indians making up the largest nationality among students

The number of visa holders arriving to live in Britain long-term increased to 1.1million – the first time it has reached that level

26 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
More than one million UK visas issued in a year as migration hits new high

Migration has hit a new high as more than one million foreign nationals have been allowed to live in the UK in a year for the first time

26 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
UK migration hits record high in post-Brexit surge as more than a million visas granted

MIGRATION has hit a record high as over one million migrants set up home in the UK and a think tank warns there is an 'absence of immigration control'

26 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Daily Express
My plan to sort the migrant crisis - and save the Tories... As the Rwandan scheme has seemingly failed, what is the objection to identifying a British-owned island to which all asylum seekers would be sent?

Home Secretary Priti Patel — the architect of the Rwandan plan — has produced a scheme to expedite removals of Albanian migrants

25 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
At least 200 migrants made the most of the weather to cross the Channel by boat today including an injured woman and several babies - after a record 1,295 asylum-seekers reached Britain on one day alone

At least 200 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats so far today

25 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
France says Britain owes them £8.4million for beach patrols and say they are being overwhelmed by migrant flash-mobs as crossings hit new daily record of 1,295 - nearly one a minute

France accused the UK of withholding over £8million it promised to fund beach patrols

25 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Britain owes us £8m for migrant beach patrols, claims France

“We are also noticing an increasing level of violence with more and more frequent violence against police officers,” the authority said in a statement

25 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Albanian police to be stationed at Dover to identify and deport illegal Channel migrants

Albanian police officers are to be stationed at Dover to help identify and deport illegal Channel migrants

25 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Albanian gangs offer migrants free minibus rides to Channel crossing points

Albanian people-smuggling gangs are offering free minibus trips from southern Europe to the northern French coast

24 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Another 700 Albanian migrants cross the Channel as data shows 1,295 asylum-seekers reached Britain in new one-day record

More than 700 Albanians reached Britain in small boats in just one day as part of a record wave of arrivals across the Channel

24 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
UK is in 'advanced talks' with FIVE more African countries about a Rwanda-style deal to take migrants as the number of Channel crossings may have hit highest daily total with more than 1,000 people believed to have come to Britain yesterday

The number of Channel migrants may hit its highest ever daily total with more than 1,000 people believed to have crossed yesterday

24 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Nigel Farage blames Channel migrant crisis on UK 'not getting proper' Brexit and says 'we haven't got control of our borders'

GB News revealed that the number of Channel migrants crossing in a single day this year has been smashed

23 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Albanian criminals deported for drugs and violence sneaking back into the UK

Albanian criminals deported from the UK for drugs and violence are sneaking back into Britain in the face of a government crackdown on gangsters

23 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Record number of migrants cross channel in single day

A record 1,295 migrants crossed the Channel on Monday, beating the previous daily high by more than 100

23 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Call for UK police to work with Albania to beat gangs

A TOP Albanian criminologist has called for the British police to work more closely with his country's counterparts

22 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Daily Express
A new immigration surge for social care is a Brexit betrayal

The ONS puts the social care workforce at over 1 million with estimated vacancies running at 100,000-plus

22 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Regain control of Britain's borders? It's the post-Brexit slogan spouted by politicians, but a record 21,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in trafficker's boats so far this year

According to the National Strategy for Maritime Security, up to 250,000 are set to make the Channel crossing to the UK by 2027

22 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Europe’s new migrant crisis

The migrants will be arriving on a continent in the grip of its own economic crisis with millions of Europeans struggling to eat and heat

22 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Spectator
Overseas hiring spree to bail out care homes

Thousands of foreign workers will be hired for Britain’s care homes this winter under plans for a matchmaking service to plug staff shortages

19 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Times
Foreign workers will be hired 'on a mass scale' to plug gaps in Britain's care homes: Government 'wants to send NHS managers to India and Philippines to recruit thousands of nurses'

Government ministers are drawing up plans to hire thousands of foreign workers to cover staff shortages

19 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
1,000 Albanian criminals and immigration offenders deported from UK this year

A total of 1,741 foreign criminals from multiple countries have been removed from the UK since 1 January

19 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Over 50 illegal migrants aged 30 and above registered as children on UK arrival

More than 50 migrants aged over 30 have been registered as children on arrival in the UK in the past decade after falsely claiming to be under 18

19 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Rwanda asylum plan: UK ministers partially lose Rwanda secrecy bid

Ministers have partially lost an attempt to keep secret a series of comments about Rwanda from an adviser

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: BBC
More than 4,000 migrants have crossed the Channel already in August to make it busiest month yet in 2022 as record year is predicted

More than 4,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel by small boat in August, making it the busiest month so far this year

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Red Wall voters ‘will punish Tories for ousting Boris Johnson’

Red Wall voters will punish the Conservatives at the next election for ousting Boris Johnson

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
What is the point of the Modern Slavery Act?

Bringing someone illegally into the country for any purpose has long been unlawful

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Priti Patel signs deal to send 'foreign criminals and immigration offenders' back to Pakistan

It is the fifth such pact struck by the UK government over the past 15 months

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Asylum-seeking Albanians are laughing at us

There were fewer refugees from war-scarred Syria than Albania

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Jet skiers 'too smart to be holidaymakers' intercepted in Devon

Border Force is investigating reports that migrant traffickers may be experimenting with jet skis

18 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Row as Royal Navy backs down on role as Channel migrant ‘taxi service’ as number of crossings more than doubles to 20,000 so far this year

The Royal Navy has become embroiled in a row after backing down on its role as a 'taxi service' for migrants in the Channel

17 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Tony Abbott says the British Government has to 'say the way is closed' after record Channel migrant crossings

A former Australian Prime Minister has called on Britain to ‘one way or another’ stop migrant crossings

17 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Migrant, 21, is arrested after 'launching frenzied attack on two Border Force officers and a security guard after coming to Britain in small boat from France'

A migrant has been arrested after allegedly launching a frenzied and violent attack on two Border Force officers

17 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Modern slavery law ‘is biggest loophole’ for migrants

Theresa May’s modern slavery law has become one of the biggest loopholes allowing illegal migrants to escape deportation

17 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
In 2021 only five percent of the visas given out by the UK government went to EU citizens

A new report has shown the number of EU citizens moving to the UK has fallen since Brexit

16 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Nigel Farage says Britain ‘being made to look an international laughing stock’ over migrant policies

Nigel Farage has said Britain is “being made to look an international laughing stock” over the “failure” of its migrant policies

16 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
The Ministry of Defence is to end its control of Channel migrant operations early next year, GB News can confirm

Now the Ministry of Defence has also confirmed to ministers that it intends to cease Command and Control operations in the Channel

16 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Exclusive: Royal Navy backs out of Channel migrant patrols

The Royal Navy is planning to end its role in charge of tackling Channel migrants, The Telegraph has learned

16 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Migrant Channel crossings to the UK exceed 20,000 for the year

More than 20,000 people have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats so far this year

15 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Channel migrants: More than 20,000 people arrive in UK in 2022 Published

More than 20,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year

15 Aug 2022 - Media Report: BBC
Neil O’Brien: Challenges for the new Prime Minister – immigration. But we should keep our promise to voters and reduce it. How hard will the new Prime Minister want to try?

Immigration will be one of the hottest issues facing the new Prime Minister

15 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Conservative Home
To defend our freedoms, we must be honest about the dangers we face

The attack on Sir Salman Rushdie is further evidence that we are conceding to violence and fear

15 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
At least 150 migrants arrived in the UK today - with 2,309 crossing the Channel by boat in August alone as temperatures soar

At least 150 migrants arrived in Britain by boat today as they took advantage of the good weather to make the perilous journey across the Channel

12 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Government is spending £1m EVERY DAY to house refugees from Afghanistan in hotels one year on from the Taliban takeover

The government is housing refugees from Afghanistan in hotels at a cost of £1million a day in the run-up to the first anniversary of the Taliban rule

12 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Afghan refugees reject homes in Scotland and Wales because ‘it’s cold and they don’t speak English’

Afghan refugees housed in hotels have refused moves to Scotland and Wales because they believe the countries are too cold and don’t speak English

12 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
'I'll protect Rwanda plan': Liz Truss vows to use British law to stop attempts by Euro court judges to thwart deportation flights

Liz Truss last night vowed to protect the Rwanda immigration scheme with UK laws in a bid to block challenges to the controversial plan

11 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Nigel Farage criticises Liz Truss' People's Forum appearance as she had 'nothing to say' on pushback in immigration probe

Ms Truss joined audience members representing a cross-section of political opinion in the Red Wall Greater Manchester town of Leigh

11 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Vulnerable migrants scammed out of ‘huge sums of money’ by rogue solicitors and immigration advisers

Vulnerable migrants are being scammed out of “huge sums of money” by rogue solicitors

11 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Independent
Hundreds of illegal migrants in sham marriages remain in UK

Hundreds of illegal migrants who used sham marriages to stay in the UK have not been prosecuted and remain in the country

11 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Quarter of Britons housing Ukrainian refugees want to end arrangement after six months

A quarter of Britons who took Ukrainians into their homes want to end the arrangement after six months

11 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Boris Johnson discusses 'scourge' of Channel migrant crossings with Emmanuel Macron in high-stakes phone call

According to the Ministry of Defence, 176 people made the crossing on five small boats on Sunday, bringing the total to 13,016 since April 14

10 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Quietly, our Brexit government is learning to love immigration – just not migrants

Brexit Britain has become a high-immigration country

10 Aug 2022 - Media Report: New Statesman
Tories ditch Priti Patel's plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base in Yorkshire

Tory leaders have ditched plans to house asylum seekers at a closed RAF base in Yorkshire

10 Aug 2022 - Media Report: The Mirror
A conspiracy of silence about the impact of mass migration has cost Britain dear

Twenty years ago this week, a new campaign organisation made its presence felt with a prediction that rocked the political establishment

10 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Albanians are in the top 10 of foreign-born parents giving birth in UK, data reveals

Albanians are among the most common foreign-born parents in the UK for the first time

10 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
The TikTok 'summer sale' for migrants: Smuggler gangs launch 'closing down sale' and slash price of Channel crossings by £1,500 per person as traffickers target Albanians on social media

People traffickers have launched a £1,500-a-person 'summer sale' to cross the Channel illegally in a dinghy

9 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
13,000 migrants have crossed Channel since Rwanda plan announced, figures show

More than 13,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since Priti Patel announced her plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

9 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Another 150 migrants are picked up in Dover today after being rescued from the Channel - as over 18,000 have arrived so far this year and MPs demand Rwanda plan to be restarted as soon as possible

Another 150 migrants including small children and a baby were picked up in Dover after being rescued from the English Channel

9 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Islamic terrorists ‘refuse to be deradicalised in prison’

Britain’s most dangerous convicted Islamic terrorists are boycotting prison work, education, training and deradicalisation programmes that could rehab

9 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
UK outsourcer Serco raises dividend, profit forecast after robust H1

The company said it would hand out an additional 9 million pounds ($10.95 million) in one-off payments to around 45,000 non-management staff

5 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Reuters
Asylum seekers in UK waiting more than six months for decision must be allowed to work, UN says

The government must allow the 70,000 asylum seekers waiting more than six months for a decision to work to stop them from being exploited and drawn in

5 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Independent
Man, 26, and woman, 40, are arrested over links to suspected people-smuggling gang in Northern Ireland

A man and a woman have been arrested in Northern Ireland in an operation targeting a suspected people-smuggling gang

4 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Ann Widdecombe labels Britain ‘one of the easiest places to disappear’ and reveals her plan to fix migrant crisis

Ann Widdecombe has labelled Britain “one of the easiest places to disappear” as she reveals what she would do to stop the migrant crisis

4 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Almost 700 migrants cross Channel in record day despite Rwanda threat

A new daily high of nearly 700 Channel migrants have reached the UK in defiance of the threat of being deported to Rwanda

3 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Telegraph
Nearly 700 migrants tried to cross the English Channel on Monday - the highest number on a single day this year - bringing total to more than 17,000 for 2022

Almost 700 migrants have crossed the Channel to the UK in a single day - a record for the year so far

3 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online
Help house 10,000 Afghan refugees, minister tells councils

The refugees minister has appealed to councils to help house 10,500 Afghans currently living in UK hotels at a cost to the taxpayer of £1m a day

3 Aug 2022 - Media Report: BBC
696 migrants illegally crossed the Channel on Monday

The integrity of our border has been shot to pieces

3 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Talk TV
Priti Patel sparks fury with plan to pay French millions in bid to stop migrant crossings

Ms Patel appears set to pay France tens of millions for more beach patrols and surveillance equipment

2 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
Nigel Farage slams Boris Johnson’s Australian-style immigration system pledge: 'They’ve failed'

Nigel Farage has slammed Boris Johnson’s Australian-style immigration pledge, saying the Government has 'failed'

2 Aug 2022 - Media Report: GB News
July migrant crossings hit highest monthly total for year

More than 3,600 migrants crossed the Channel to the UK in July, the highest monthly total this year

2 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Evening Standard
Number of migrants crossing Channel this year tops 16,000: Another 460 asylum seekers arrived in UK on small boats yesterday taking total for the week to 1,000

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1 Aug 2022 - Media Report: Mail Online

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