Lord Willetts is President of the Resolution Foundation. He is a former Minister for Universities and Science. Civil society is a powerful concept covering every form of association which stands between the individual and the state. It is one of the great strengths...
Fishing vessel with 69 suspected illegal migrants hidden onboard intercepted by UK Border Force off Norfolk coast
Advertisements A fishing vessel carrying 69 suspected illegal migrants hidden onboard has been intercepted by UK Border Force boats off the Norfolk coast and escorted into Harwich. The suspected illegal migrants who are all Albanians were questioned about alleged...
Adrian Pascu-Tulbure: As the recent US election showed, the minority vote is no longer automatically Democrat
Adrian Pascu-Tulbure is a Director at FTI Consulting. The President-elect may well come to regret his offhand comment in a radio interview earlier in May, where he joked that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”. In...
Johnson’s quiet shift to a more permissive migration policy
In the run up to last year’s general election, one of Boris Johnson’s most significant promises was to reduce immigration if the Conservatives won a majority. He spoke about the Government’s proposed new Australia-style points-based system, saying that “numbers will...
Gary Sambrook: The Government is delivering on its promises to reform Britain’s broken immigration system
Gary Sambrook is the Conservative MP for Birmingham Northfield. For many years, members of the public have repeatedly asked politicians to reform our broken immigration system and introduce an Australian-style points based one. In constituencies like mine people were...
Shaun Bailey: The Mayor of London should build up opportunity – rather than knock down statues
Shaun Bailey is a member of the London Assembly and the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London. For better or for worse, the place you grow up in shapes the kind of person you become. When I look back on my childhood years, spent in a council house in Ladbroke...
Maurisa Coleman: We should not allow the Left to claim ownership of Black History Month
Maurisa S. Coleman is a British–Trinidadian entrepreneur, currently working as a Parliamentary researcher. She is also an ambassador for the Notting Hill Carnival. Today, a debate will take place on Black History Month in the Commons. Black History Month is dedicated...
Paul Bristow MP: Ministers must make it easier for the NHS to recruit dentists from overseas
Paul Bristow is the MP for Peterborough and a member of the Commons’ Health and Social Care Select Committee. As we prepare to leave the European Union on January 31, the UK is forging new bilateral relationships and turning towards our long time Commonwealth allies....
Ascension Island: a leak that tells us more about the inside of the Home Office than government policy
What have we learned from the recent rash of stories about Priti Patel’s decision to investigate setting up migration and asylum processing facilities on some of the UK’s more remote Atlantic possessions, St Helena and Ascension Island? On the face of it,...
The Conservatives should watch for a rival to their right
Many pixels and much paper have been spent trying to explain UKIP and, briefly, the Brexit Party. Some see them as having been driven mainly by economics, and the effect of the financial crash and techological change on living standards, jobs and security. Others...
