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UK immigration

  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    ExplainerUK society
    Why are the far right rioting in England?

    A horrific knife attack, disinformation and extremists whipping up anger have all played a role in triggering a shocking outburst of violence

    Trouble flares during an anti-immigration protest outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Labour to stop using Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers

    New UK government will discontinue lease of controversial vessel from January 2025

    Some officials are aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland, near Poole, Britain
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Last UK government spent more than £700mn on Rwanda scheme, Cooper says

    Home secretary criticises ‘shocking waste’ of money as she sets out plan to increase border security

    Yvette Cooper speaks in the House of Commons
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Starmer opens door to processing asylum claims outside UK

    New PM puts fight against irregular migration at heart of bid to rebuild ties with Europe at Blenheim Palace summit

    Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, front fifth right, poses for a family photo with Europe’s leaders during the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK food sector should cover migrant workers’ upfront costs, advisers say

    Migration Advisory Committee urges government to do more to stamp out abuses in seasonal worker scheme

    Farm workers picking lettuce in Tarleton, Lancashire
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Demographics and population
    England and Wales record biggest annual population growth in 75 years

    Office for National Statistics points to impact of immigration as births slip to two-decade low

    Montage of a graph behind a photo of a crowd of people walking along
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Four migrants die in attempted English Channel crossing

    Incident off French coast reflects rise in hazardous small boat crossings this year

    A French police officer walks beside a police car parked on a road off a beach
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Alan Beattie
    The immigration dilemma Labour hopes will go away

    Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers

    An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Can Labour fix the UK asylum system?

    The party has pledged to scrap the Tory’s flagship Rwanda scheme but still reduce small boat crossings and end the use of asylum hotels

    Ako hugs his young son next to his wife on a sofa in front of a blue wall inside their flat
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Jonathan Portes
    Low migration risks an economic doom loop for the UK

    The next government must realise that a managed and open policy is essential for long-term growth

    A patient leaves an A&E ward at a hospital in London in April
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Italy
    Indian worker’s death exposes plight of migrant labour in Italy

    Satnam Singh died after having his arm severed by a machine on a farm near Rome

    Workers in a vineyard near Rome
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Neither politicians nor the public think straight on immigration

    The problem is that voters aren’t willing to pay for a policy they say really matters to them

    Ewan White illustration of bricklayers building a wall in a desert.
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The State of Britain
    Labour has political headroom on immigration. How will it use it? Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, cuts to youth services in England and Wales and their impact

  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Rishi Sunak to put tax cuts at centre of Tory election manifesto

    Prime minister tries to get on front foot after faltering start to campaign

    Rishi Sunak smiling during an interview with Nick Robinson on the Panorama television programme
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The immigration mess is a nightmare for both the Tories and Labour

    Nigel Farage’s return to frontline politics puts pressure on the main parties

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of many coloured crossed hands in the shape of birds in the sky above the rooftops
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak and Starmer clash on tax and immigration in testy TV debate

    Party leaders repeatedly interrupt each other but snap poll gives PM a much-needed win

    Sir Keir Starmer, left, and Rishi Sunak faced each other in an hour-long encounter in Manchester broadcast by ITV
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak faces Tory backlash over proposal to toughen ECHR stance

    Ministers and MPs warn threat to leave European court imperils Good Friday Agreement

    James Cleverly
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s pledge to cut immigration tightens party’s fiscal straitjacket

    Ultra-cautious policy approach carries risks of its own if Starmer makes it into No 10

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s pledge to cut work visas worries business

    Employers nervous that potential curbs would make it harder for them to hire from abroad

    Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    National Health Service
    Nursing vacancies in England fall to record low

    NHS recruitment drive boosts number of overseas staff but domestic enrolments lag behind, say analysts

    Overseas nurses being trained by the NHS
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    News in-depthUK universities
    Essex university’s success story stymied by politics of immigration

    Overseas enrolments plummet amid government’s hostile tone, sparking financial uncertainty

    Essex university students at a graduation ceremony in New Delhi
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    HSBC Holdings PLC
    HSBC considers giving graduates jobs in China and India after UK offers pulled

    Bank is one of employers that withdrew job offers to foreign graduates after Britain tightened visa rules

    HSBC’s Canary Wharf tower
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Chefs overtake software developers for UK skilled worker visas

    FT analysis of official data reflects wider changes in use of hiring route

    Montage of a chef and chart
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Net migration to UK falls 10% to 685,000

    Number of people coming to work overtakes those coming to study as ministers announce crackdown on recruitment agents

    People wait for airline passengers in the arrivals hall at Heathrow Airport
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Wages, the NHS and migration: the Tories’ record in charts

    Voters will judge the changes in the UK over the past 14 years

    A combined image of housing, an NHS worker, cash and a chart of migration figures
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