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...
MPs warn the Home Office ‘has no idea how many people are in the UK illegally’
Advertisements MP’s have warned that the Home Office has “no idea” what its £400m-a-year immigration enforcement unit is achieving achieves and that it is unprepared for Brexit. The Public Accounts Committee, which is cross-party has also warned that a lack of...
What could give the Government a sense of purpose – and chances to achieve? Making Gove Deputy Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson has a majority of 80, the Conservatives are still above 40 per cent in the polls, there is no leadership challenge pending, and there are still over four years to go until the next election. But the Tory press this week is behaving as though none of that...
Arminka Helic: Three easy ways for the Government to hugely improve the Domestic Abuse Bill
Last year I visited a London shelter where migrant women – survivors of domestic violence – sought refuge from partners turned abusers. Their stories of abuse, coercion, and gaslighting were all too similar to the stories of countless other women in...
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