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  • 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

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Home Office urged to stop using ‘unlawful’ hotels for child refugees

    More than 100 charities want the practice ended after hundreds of minors go missing

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Bilimoria warns cutting foreign student numbers would be ‘utter madness’

    Former CBI president criticises government moves to bring down migration by targeting universities

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    UK business & economy
    UK worker shortfall due to Brexit curbs estimated at 330,000

    Ending free movement from EU is ‘contributing significantly’ to shortages in lower-skilled sectors, think-tanks find

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    UK employment
    Sunak prepares big push to tackle economic inactivity in the UK

    Prime minister rejects business pleas for increased immigration to deal with labour shortages

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Health sector
    UK doctors call for simplification of visa rules to stem GP shortage

    Britain has relied on more non-EU foreign practitioners since Brexit

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Lea Ypi
    The haunting divide between refugee and economic migrant

    Simplistic distinctions between the deserving and undeserving do nothing to help the vulnerable

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    UK acted unlawfully over post-Brexit EU settlement scheme, court rules

    Judge finds Home Office policy was enacted in ‘unlawful’ manner, putting EU citizens at risk of deportation

  • Monday, 19 December, 2022
    UK plan to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, court rules

    Rights groups consider appealing judgment after efforts to have policy ruled illegal fail

  • Monday, 19 December, 2022
    Investors warn food companies about risk of forced labour on UK farms

    There is growing concern that the country’s immigration system is exposing migrant workers to abuse

  • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
    News in-depthEU immigration
    France urges UK to overhaul asylum system to curb Channel tragedies

    Interior minister Gérald Darmanin wants treaty between Britain and EU to establish legal entry routes

  • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
    Arshad Isakjee
    Talking tough won’t stop migrant crossings of the English Channel

    Expensive security measures have been in place for years on the maritime border between France and the UK

  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Janan Ganesh
    The God-fearing case for immigration

    Religion in England is increasingly being propped up by immigrants and their descendants

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Four confirmed dead after migrant boat incident in the Channel

    Tragedy comes day after Rishi Sunak launches new strategy to combat people smuggling into UK

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Inside Politics
    Sunak makes a promise he can keep on immigration

    Feared deaths in the Channel underline the urgent need for safe legal routes for people to seek asylum, which PM’s policy fails to provide

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Sunak toughens curbs on migrants coming to Britain in small boats

    Prime minister targets Albanians and says people are ‘right to be angry’ about number of asylum seekers

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Resist calls for new visa routes for migrant workers, advisory body urges UK

    Migrants being left open to abuse by the design and poor policing of existing schemes, it warns

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    UK home secretary welcomes report calling for crackdown on asylum seekers

    Refugee groups say suggested policies would represent a breach of Britain’s international obligations

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    News in-depth
    English councils struggle to maintain Ukraine refugee scheme as war drags on

    Local authorities fear spike in number of homeless migrants as ‘broken’ rental market hinders shift from volunteer hosts

  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    Diphtheria spreads among Channel migrants dispersed from Manston

    Health officials say there have been 50 cases found in asylum seekers moved around the country by the Home Office

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    UK employment
    How can Britain solve its post-Brexit labour shortage?

    Employers not main driver of latest surge in immigration — nor would loosening rules solve all workforce problems.

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    UK universities
    UK university leaders defend benefits of overseas students

    Talk of limiting overseas students has done damage, says sector concerned by reports of visa curbs

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    Inside Politics
    Why are Tories still making silly promises on immigration?

    Sunak’s government must focus on delivering improvements it can control rather than ‘net’ migration figures driven by global forces

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    The Weekend Essay
    ‘The English understand us’: hope and despair on the Calais migrant shore

    The strain on those hoping to cross the Channel from France is intensifying — so why does the UK still exert such a pull?

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