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This week, the Chancellor told us his Budget would bring “breathing space for today, fresh hope for the future”. On immigration, it is anything but. Buried in the small print is a collection of liberalising measures that exposes the gulf between the government’s rhetoric about control and its real priorities.

The Home Office has found a novel way to deal with a deadline: ignore it. The Critic reports that the internal 14 October date for announcing Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) reforms has disappeared, with no replacement. While ministers um and ah, and fail to reform Britain’s broken ILR system,

For years, politicians, officials, corporate lobbyists and many academics have insisted our nation’s prosperity depended on ever-escalating levels of mass migration. Migration Watch has argued against this and for years said that low-skill, low-pay immigration has been a colossal net cost to the exchequer. Here’s what we said 10 years

Britain cannot build a prosperous future by propping up inefficient, outmoded and struggling businesses by giving them a free hand to import cheaper migrant labour. For too long, politicians have gone along with employers’ demands for more labour, ostensibly because of skills or labour shortages. Yet filling vacancies and raising

Whatever moniker it ends up with, we have no doubt that the ‘safe and legal routes’ for asylum seekers announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week, will not stop the boats. Nor will it have much impact on bogus claims for asylum. Or restore control to the shambolic asylum system.