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UK immigration

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Immigration drives fastest UK population growth for half a century

    Official data highlights country’s demographic challenges

    Shoppers on Oxford Street, London
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

    Row breaks out over leadership contender’s comments as Tory annual conference gets under way in Birmingham

    Kemi Badenoch
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Overseas student and worker curbs will cost UK business over £40bn

    Home Office assessments come as new Labour government presses ahead with curbs on immigration

    Students from LSE celebrate graduating
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK settles legal aid fee dispute with immigration lawyers

    Law firm Duncan Lewis drops case against government after justice secretary agrees to review pay

    Criminal defence barristers gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London to protest over legal aid fee rates
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    InterviewConservative party UK
    Jenrick accuses UK Treasury of ‘gaslighting’ over benefits of migration

    Tory leadership frontrunner says GDP figures ‘juiced up’ by arrivals

    Robert Jenrick
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Explainer
    Can Italian tactics help the UK stop migrant boats?

    Meloni has reduced the flow, but some methods are controversial

    Montage shows prime minister Sir Keir Starmer with his Italian counterpart Georgia Meloni against an Italian flag
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    UK studying Italian plans to process asylum claims in Albania, says Meloni

    Keir Starmer’s talks with Italy’s rightwing PM came after eight people died trying to cross English Channel on Sunday

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration

    British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people

    Keir Starmer with Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni during a meeting at Blenheim Palace in July
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    UK to require £10 travel permits for EU and US citizens

    Government says expansion of electronic travel authorisation scheme designed to ‘enhance security’

    Passengers queue at passport control at Gatwick airport as Border Force officers check their passports.
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    At least 12 people die in attempted Channel crossing

    French emergency services rescue more than 50 people after small boat ran into trouble on Tuesday morning

    French emergency services handle the bodies of some of the people who died trying to cross the Channel in a small boat on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Tom Tugendhat kicks off Tory leadership bid with migration pledge

    Former army officer is among six MPs vying to lead UK opposition party

    Tom Tugendhat at a Conservative party leadership campaign at the Royal Horseguards Hotel in Westminster on September 3 2024
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    UK aims to boost migrant returns with new ‘support’ deals

    Labour government posts contract to ‘reintegrate’ returnees in 11 countries in bid to reduce asylum backlog

    Migrants rescued from a boat crossing the English Channel land on Dungeness Beach in Kent, UK
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Brexit
    UK rejects calls for EU youth movement deal

    Campaigners say allowing 18- to 30-year-olds to live and work in Europe would be popular

    Two women with face paint depicting the EU flag on the left and the UK flag on the right, smile and pose for a photo during a protest in Central London against the implications of the EU referendum result
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Rishi Sunak’s government ramped up returns of migrants in final year

    Irregular arrivals that include small boat crossings also fell by a quarter in 12 months to end of June, migration figures show

    A group of people thought to be migrants walk on the wet sand towards the shore after being brought in by an RNLI lifeboat, which is visible in the background. A man in a high-visibility vest and hard hat is walking with them. The scene is set in Dungeness, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel.
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    UK to hire 100 intelligence officers in push to return more failed asylum claims

    Home Office sets out measures aimed at ‘disrupting and smashing’ people-trafficking gangs

    A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by a Border Force vessel
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Time for a grown-up conversation about immigration

    Failing to acknowledge imperfect outcomes and trade-offs is impoverishing the debate

    Montage of a cutout photo of a pile of suitcases and bags against the blue and red lines of a bar chart
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    UK universities
    International students to return in smaller numbers to UK universities

    Data shows a 35% drop in deposits for courses starting next month

    Students sitting in front of laptops
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour will find politics of immigration easier as net migration drops

    New poll shows public dismay at sharp fall in numbers of people applying to work in social care sector in Britain

    Anti-racist demonstrators outside Merseyside Refugee Centre
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Is the UK too reliant on overseas hires for tech and engineering jobs?

    Government commissions review of two graduate sectors that appear mired in permanent skills crisis

  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    News in-depth
    UK immigration: why public opinion is at odds with reality

    Academic studies and official data highlight misconceptions around impact of new arrivals on economy and society

    Protesters hold signs for and against UK immigration
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Far-right riots centred on England’s deprivation hotspots

    Areas hit by violence also have high proportion of asylum seekers housed there, FT analysis shows

    Montage showing a man, map of england and bar chart
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    UK visa applications from care workers fall sharply

    Year-on-year drop of 82% in July points to continuing decline in net migration

    Home caregiver dresses a senior citizen
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How Starmer could shape a credible message on immigration

    Labour could move beyond simple binaries of ‘bad’ and ‘good’ net movement, but it must be upfront with voters

    A sign protesting the plan for a new asylum seeker centre at Wethersfield
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK signals move to curb overseas hiring for tech and engineering jobs

    Home secretary calls for independent migration advisers to review system that ‘needs to be managed’

    Engineer and apprentice
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    UK riots
    Tory rhetoric on migrants created ‘climate’ for far-right riots, say critics

    Claims of asylum seeker ‘invasion’ fuelled hatred, they warn

    An anti-immigration demonstration near parliament on July 31 in response to the fatal stabbing of three children in Stockport
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