by Webby | 16th March 2020 | General, Immigration, Politics
Sunder Katwala is the Director of British Future. This parliament will see the biggest changes in immigration policy for half a century. With the prize of the Prime Minister’s election mandate comes the ownership of this reset moment for immigration policy. New...
by Webby | 9th March 2020 | Culture, General, Immigration, Politics
Neil O’Brien is MP for Harborough. Are free markets and social conservatism friends, or enemies? For most of the 20th century it seemed obvious: the two were allies, up against the same common foes. The Soviet Union and China were command economies but also command...
by Webby | 1st March 2020 | Brexit, General, Immigration, Politics
At one level, the tale of Philip Rutman’s resignation is just another story of the falling-out of a politician and a civil servant. It is scarcely unique – especially at the Home Office. Consider the departure from it, during Theresa May’s term as...
by Webby | 27th February 2020 | Brexit, Europe, General, Immigration, Politics
Garvan Walshe is a former national and international security policy adviser to the Conservative Party. Michel Barnier got his orders on Tuesday. They are the product of three years of a negotiation in which all trust has been eliminated. If I were a Brexteer who...
by Webby | 24th February 2020 | Culture, General, Immigration, Politics
Over in the United States, in the competiton for the Democrats’ presidential candidate nomination, Bernie Sanders has suggested that illegal immigrants should have the same rights to welfare as American citizens. “All of our people – when I say all I...
by Webby | 22nd February 2020 | Brexit, General, Immigration, Politics
The female Home Secretary fell out with her Permanent Secretary – and the latter eventually left the Department. We refer not to Priti Patel and Philip Rutnam, but to Theresa May and Helen Ghosh, who at one time held the position. The latter reportedly found...
