Migration Watch UK
Fifty migrants packed into a floundering rubber dinghy in the Channel were picked up by a Border Force vessel today after refusing to be rescued
Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer want it to be smaller - even if neither will tell us what number they'd be happy with
Migrant salary limits must be raised to persuade Britons back to work, Tory MPs have told Rishi Sunak, after he admitted record levels
Rishi Sunak was accused of having “no grip on immigration” yesterday as net migration to the UK hit a record high
Experts warned of crippling pressure on housing, the NHS and schools — with a city the size of Birmingham having arrived over the past two decades
Some 1.2 million people arrived in the UK last year intending to stay for a year or more
Net migration hit record levels last year, with figures estimated to have reached 606,000
The number easily surpasses the previous record high of 504,000 recorded in the year to June 2022
Long-awaited statistics are expected to show another huge spike in net migration in 2022
Foreign postgraduate students on non-research courses will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK
David Cameron has said he can't see an alternative to the controversial Rwanda policy
The Archbishop of Canterbury has made a fresh intervention on the Government's plans to stop small boats
I have a very clear view on immigration. It must be legal, it must be controlled and it must be fair
A growing number of skilled workers from Africa and Asia are moving to Britain to plug crippling staff shortages
Why on earth would anybody want to be Home Secretary? The job has long been regarded as a poisoned chalice
Limited immigration is a good thing for a country. Without adequate controls, however, it simply can’t cope with the numbers and loses its identity
England needs 616,000 extra homes each year to accommodate record numbers of migrants, a think tank has said
Sky News has taken a look at the history of the statistics, the promises and the policies within the party
Workers in the hospitality industry have reported receiving above-average salary increases last year as the sector struggles with a skills shortage
Former Education Minister Andrea Jenkyns says the party needs to put more pressure on the Prime Minister to get back to more Conservative policies
European leaders are turning a blind eye to tens of thousands of migrants destined for Britain, a career people smuggler has claimed
Allies of Suella Braverman fear she is being "targeted in a politically motivated"
Rishi Sunak says legal migration to the UK is "too high" but has refused to put a precise figure on acceptable levels of people coming to the UK
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Ministers have yet to agree on a series of measures proposed by the home secretary to cut immigration amid cabinet infighting over the issue
There is no obvious ideological homogeneity on show
The vote for Brexit was shaped by people wanting a different economic model – less southern, less finance-based, less migration-reliant
If you have voted Conservative at any point over the past 13 years because you wanted less migration, you must be feeling somewhat let down
Next week, the Office for National Statistics is expected to report that net immigration (after deducting those who have emigrated) has risen
Have the Tories, armed with their new powers, fulfilled their pledge to bring down net legal immigration? No
It would come as the Tories head into an election where the UK’s post-Brexit control of its borders will be a major campaign issue
The UK fertility rate is teetering around 1.7 births per woman, far short of the 2.1 replacement rate required to keep population level
Peter Hitchens mentions Lord Green
Senior Tories are rounding up on Rishi Sunak as the Prime Minister risks breaking a key Conservative immigration pledge
Labour is considering extending voting rights to some EU citizens living in the UK if the party wins the next general election
In a video clip unearthed by the Mail, Mick Lynch rants in a speech at a north London mosque
RECORD numbers of foreign criminals are still in the UK after failed bids to deport them, figures reveal
Conservative tensions over immigration broke into the open today as ministers clashed over the need for workers to boost the economy
Angry locals in Falmouth, Cornwall have been protesting the arrival of a huge barge designed to house up to 500 asylum seekers
Net migration is on track to be as high as one million, analysis suggests ahead of the release of official figures this month
It’s not acceptable for people smugglers to nullify policy “in a democratic and law respecting nation”
RNLI volunteers are being used as a “taxi service” by the Government as they struggle to hold down their regular jobs
They were happy to put vulnerable migrants into the backs of lorries for long Channel sea crossings
It's the reason that dares not speak its name, the elephant in the room, as it were – burgeoning net immigration
Ministers are drawing up plans to stop family members from joining overseas master’s students at British universities
The government is set to clash with peers when its plan to tackle small boat crossings takes its next step through Parliament later
Policing of a huge barge set to home around 500 asylum seekers should be funded by the government, a police commissioner is demanding
Eltiona Skana, 33, was initially refused asylum after smuggling herself into Britain in the back of a lorry
A London gang of 16 people has been found guilty over a £42 million money laundering scheme
The Bibby Stockholm, from Italy, is due to dock in Falmouth at about 08:00 BST, ahead of an inspection and refit work
Mothballed facilities in Hampshire and Oxfordshire were due to be brought back into use by this summer
Statistics reveal that more asylum seekers have come to Britain in the two months since the legislation was announced than in the previous eight weeks
edfordshire Police have now released images of the remaining three men who they want to find
Government figures reveal that a total of 6,549 asylum seekers have crossed the Channel in 156 boats to date in 2023
Two thirds of migrants who arrived in small boats and were detained for removal last year claimed they were victims of modern slavery
Ministers came under renewed pressure last night to deport Albanians allegedly exploiting asylum rules
The threat of deportation acts as a “trigger” for migrants who arrived by small boats to claim to be victims of modern slavery
Brexit was never, on its own, going to make Britain better or worse. It simply meant the retrieval of powerful tools
Bedfordshire Police confirmed 13 people fled from the Yarl's Wood centre in Bedfordshire
A giant barge will arrive in the UK this week to be refitted and prepared to accommodate 500 asylum seekers
Asylum seekers are set to be housed on a barge or ferry on the Mersey as the Home Office seeks to move migrants out of hotels
The MP for Braintree said “no-one” would want such a facility in their constituency
The government’s long-overdue plans to “stop the boats” might be successful, but it might only have a small effect on our overall immigration figures
Between June 2021 and June 2022 net migration hit a record 504,000 people — roughly 1.1 million long-term arrivals, set against 560,000 departures