Pressure is mounting on Andy Burnham to address small boat crossings into the UK.
- Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
The proposals include cutting support for some asylum seekers and limiting refugee status to 30 months at a time.
Starmer could have framed the same policies around a softer rhetoric, one that embraces multicultural Britain while making the case for reforming the labour market.
The new government has vowed to ‘smash the gangs’ and increase border security.
The 2010 general election put immigration front and centre of the political landscape for the next 14 years.
The discussion has so far been derailed by lingering, toxic politics around Brexit and free movement.
Labour has vowed to crack down on smuggling gangs.
The illegal migration bill makes much of the Nationality and Borders Act redundant.
The illegal migration bill is performative politics that allows the Conservatives to blame opponents ahead of a key election.
Labour and Conservatives share a desire to wean the UK off a dependency on migrant labour.
An expert breaks down the promises from the two Conservative leadership candidates.
What the main parties propose to do about immigration.
The UK government has done little to prove how it will continue to attract highly skilled migrants after Brexit.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
In its Brexit white paper, the UK government proposed a new UK-EU youth mobility scheme. But the details remain vague.
It sparked a series of government resignations, but what’s actually in Theresa May’s Brexit plan?
In a bid to meet unrealistic migration targets, the government has been enforcing document checks at every turn.
Jeremy Corbyn should heed lessons from his Labour predecessors on immigration policy.
The options on the table for the UK when it comes to that most contentious of issues.
It’s not going to be easy to square this circle, but the Labour leader isn’t presenting a meaningful post-Brexit vision.
In 2004 the Labour government allowed citizens of the 10 new EU states labour market access. Why did Blair make this decision?
A run down of what each has to say on the top issue of the summer.
Smaller party leaders could push for a more generous approach if called upon to support a Labour government.
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