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    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Hannah White
      Lack of scrutiny of small boats bill risks unintended consequences

      Tough new immigration measures could backfire unless parliament has time to examine them in detail

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Britain after Brexit: The surprising surge in skilled migrants

      Employers in the UK have made much greater use than expected of the new migration system to bring in workers

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      UK supermarkets to fund audits on farms to prevent worker exploitation

      Move comes after warnings that the recruitment process was exposing Asian migrants to exploitation

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      UK signs €541mn deal with France to curb cross-Channel migration

      Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron hail ‘new chapter’ in bilateral relationship following summit in Paris

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      UK clampdown on small boat crossings fails to deter Dunkirk’s refugees

      Migrants continue to set out on ‘suicide missions’ across the Channel to reach Britain

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Tony Barber
      Britain and the EU are making a deadly hash of tackling irregular migration

      Comprehensive solutions are hard to devise, but illegal and inhumane measures are not the way forward

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Sunak to seek Macron’s co-operation on curbing Channel crossings

      UK prime minister will urge French president to support a deal on returning migrants at a summit on Friday

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      UK employment
      UK jumps up rankings for highly skilled overseas workers

      Post-Brexit migration regime boosts Britain’s attractiveness to well-qualified job applicants, says OECD

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      News in-depthUK foreign policy
      France and UK aim to draw a line under post-Brexit tensions

      First Franco-British summit in five years will focus on resetting relations plus migration and defence issues

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Sunak attacks ‘lefty lawyers’ amid criticism of small boats strategy

      PM defends bill to deter Channel crossings as Braverman accused of breaching ministerial code

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      UK employment
      Britain plans looser foreign worker rules to plug labour gap

      Ministers to tackle chronic shortages by easing restrictions for construction sector

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Economists Exchange
      Alan Manning: ‘Achieving growth by just having more people is not what we should aim for’

      The UK government’s former immigration adviser considers whether Britain’s post-Brexit migrant strategy has worked

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      UK faces legal battle over plans to stop cross-Channel migrants

      Home secretary concedes new legislation may be in breach of human rights laws

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Sunak to reveal plan to remove small boat migrants

      UK leader hopes better co-operation with France will help support planned legislation

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Sunak to introduce new laws to stem cross-Channel migration

      People arriving in UK by small boat will be barred from claiming asylum under new bill

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      British public U-turn on attitudes to immigration

      Other charts of the week: Antarctic sea ice, gender inequality among decision makers, economy concern

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      UK asylum backlog hits record 160,000

      Data shows 60% rise from 2021 in unprocessed claims as government launches emergency fast-track system

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Some UK asylum claims to be fast-tracked to help clear backlog

      Cases from five countries to be dealt with by questionnaires not interviews to help tackle 100,000 outstanding applications

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Will Rishi Sunak’s plan to curb small boat migration work?

      Some on the right want even tougher measures, but experts warn against ‘unworkable’ proposals

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Alan Livsey
      For better or for worse, I’m British now

      After nearly three decades in the UK, it was finally time to brave the citizenship test

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      UK universities
      Education secretary to resist Home Office cuts to overseas students

      Gillian Keegan says universities are ‘hugely valuable’ export success for Britain

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Brexit
      Brussels seeks answers after UK rejects residence for thousands of EU citizens

      London wants to reduce checks on traffic between Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Sunak warned of Tory backlash if he tries to take UK out of ECHR

      PM told plans to ‘push boundaries’ of human rights law over migrant boats would lead to Commons rebellion

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      UK employment
      UK farmers stop recruiting Nepalese workers after exploitation warning

      Halt to hiring from south Asian nation will exacerbate labour shortages

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Safe haven? How the asylum system lost vulnerable children

      Charities fear criminal gangs are exploiting young people housed in ‘temporary’ hotel accommodation

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