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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Sunak faces an ungovernable party that wants it all

      Amid record UK immigration, MPs are calling for immediate action while failing to engage with trade-offs

      Rishi Sunak at the cabinet table
    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
      What the Dutch far-right win means for the EU

      Record net migration to the UK post-Brexit

    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Timothy Garton Ash
      Europe’s problem? It’s too attractive

      Harsh measures and lurid rhetoric on migration make the continent look as if it is betraying its own values

      Montage image of the EU flag and barbed wire
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Sunak under pressure as net migration to UK hits record 745,000

      Ex-home secretary Suella Braverman calls 2022 figures slap in face for public but ONS signals levels may be coming down

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Home Office looks at ways to cut legal migration to UK

      Options include raising visa salary thresholds and limiting number of dependants accompanying care workers

    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Heather Rolfe
      Plight of workless Hongkongers in the UK reveals a skills mismatch

      When immigration is high, employers need to focus on recruiting migrants who are here, not just ask for more

      A careers fair
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      Braverman says Sunak’s latest Rwanda plan is doomed to fail

      Former minister insists UK must override international law to be able to send asylum seekers to African nation

      Suella Braverman
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      UK vows Rwanda asylum plan can be compatible with international law

      Prime minister has proposed emergency legislation to deem African country legally ‘safe’ after court defeat

      James Cleverly
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan

      EU toughens measures on illegal shipments of Russian oil

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Britain’s migrant policy is in disarray

      Rishi Sunak’s attempt to rescue Rwanda plan by changing the law is misconceived

      UK officials help migrants arriving on the south coast of England. The British government should put its focus back on collaborating with its European neighbours
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Explainer
      Why the UK Supreme Court ruled against Sunak’s Rwanda policy

      Judges feared asylum seekers sent to Africa could be threatened with forcible repatriation to their home countries

      Montage of Rishi Sunak and court house
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Sunak pledges to change the law after Supreme Court rules against Rwanda policy

      Prime minister tries to rescue showpiece immigration policy after judges highlight risk of repatriation to countries of origin

      Rishi Sunak said at a Downing Street press conference he still intends to put asylum seekers on planes to Rwanda ‘in the spring next year’
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Instant InsightDavid Allen Green
      The Supreme Court’s decision on the Rwanda policy is remarkable

      Under Lord Reed, the court has previously been content to leave matters of policy to the executive and legislature

      Toufique Hossain representing asylum seekers leaves the Supreme Court with his team
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      UK politics
      Braverman claims Sunak ‘repeatedly failed’ on immigration

      Stinging letter comes a day after dismissal as UK home secretary

      Suella Braverman and her letter to Rishi Sunak
    • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
      MPs cast fresh doubt on Home Office asylum reforms

      Public accounts committee criticises ‘unacceptable costs’ and ‘lack of safeguards’ in cutting UK claims backlog

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    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      News in-depth
      Migrant hotels are closing but is the UK’s asylum backlog really coming down?

      Lawyers accuse the government of ‘massaging’ the numbers as the Tories tap into growing public concern about migration

      A boat carrying around 50 migrants drifts into English waters after being escorted by a French tug from the French coastline on August 24, 2023
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      Global migration
      Migration to rich countries hits all-time high

      OECD says humanitarian crises and demand for workers is behind increased population flows

      Migrants entering the US at the Chaparral pedestrian border
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      UK universities
      UK universities urged to cut ‘fraudulent’ international student applications

      Ex-minister Jo Johnson says failure to act risks backlash on fears some are ‘selling immigration rather than education’

      University students in a lecture hall
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      UK social care
      Overseas hiring props up England’s social care sector, data shows

      Homes in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which pay higher wages, are less reliant on foreigners

      A care worker holds an elderly woman’s hands
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      UK’s Rwanda migration policy comes under Supreme Court scrutiny

      Legal battle over Rishi Sunak’s strategy to ‘stop the boats’ reaches critical stage

      An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the English Channel
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Global migration
      UK and Italy call for tougher action across Europe on irregular migration

      Rishi Sunak and Giorgia Meloni make plea after finalising pact on issue with like-minded countries

    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Braverman says ‘hurricane’ of migrants coming to the UK

      Labour accuses home secretary of using controversial speech to further her credentials as a future Tory leader

      UK home secretary Suella Braverman delivers speech in Manchester
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      UK migration advisers call for tighter foreign worker rules

      ‘Shortage occupation list’ opens door to exploitation by bosses and should be axed, says Migration Advisory Committee

      Commuters on their way to work cross London Bridge in central London
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Rishi Sunak is right: multiculturalism works

      British politicians would do well to reflect on the country’s relative success in integrating minorities

      Illustration of two rows of paper chain people. On the top row, the people’s hands and feet are joined with sticky tape and each person has a country flag - left to right: India, Portugal, Britain and Canada. The bottom row is seemlessly joined with each figure a different colour
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Braverman questions UN treaty’s definition of refugee persecution

      UNHCR insists convention is ‘as relevant as when it was adopted’ after UK home secretary calls for reform

      Home secretary Suella Braverman makes speech on immigration at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington
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