Sir Julian Brazier is a former Defence Minister, and was MP for Canterbury from 1987-2017. Robin Hodgson’s excellent recent pamphlet, explores the critical link between our growing population, and issues like housing shortages and infrastructure overstretch. He has...
Tony Smith: Expanding the UK’s refugee resettlement scheme is one way we can improve our border security
Tony Smith is a former Head of the UK Border Force and Director of Ports and Borders in both the UK and Canada. He is now Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd, an international border security company, and Chairman on the International Border Management and...
Tory MP Offers Gary Lineker‘s House Out to Illegal Migrants
Tory MP Offers Gary Lineker‘s House Out to Illegal Migrants [embedded content] During the election campaign it became obvious that should he win, Ashfield Tory candidate Lee Anderson would be right up there amongst the most plain-talking Tory MPs. Despite a couple of...
Immigration – A time bomb for the Conservatives?
Migration Watch UK has today issued this analysis of public opinion on immigration: The paper finds that, while a negative view of immigration in general has declined over the past decade, there continues to be strong public concern about its scale. The paper assesses...
Has COVID-19 changed media coverage of immigration?
By Lynsey Burrows: COVID-19, Migrants and The Media The British press is known around the world for several things: on the one hand its lauded for its investigative journalism, and… This content was sourced from Unity News Network.
Richard Holden: Three opportunities that open up for us in an Australian trade deal
Maddisons Coffee Shop, Front Street, Consett On Saturday, I did my sixth “Lockdown Litterpick”, around the beautiful Bollihope Common. A group of us bagged up five bin bags full of cans, bottles, pizza boxes and the general detritus that had been dumped in one the...
Introducing Johnson, Hancock and Cummings’ new Red Wall-friendly, Labour-style NHS
At the end of May, NHS England announced that dentists could re-open as of the start of next week. The decision was not made by Ministers. It was not even cleared by them. Almost immediately, dentists themselves began to protest that they didn’t have the...
Franco Frattini: Turkey’s actions in Libya risk another Europe-wide migrant crisis – and Brexit will not exempt the UK
Franco Frattini is a former Foreign Minister of Italy and European Commissioner. Libya’s bloody and destructive civil war has dragged on for almost a decade now, stamping out the hopes the nation held when it emerged from the brutal dictatorship of Colonel Gaddafi. On...
This is the most socially liberal Conservative government in history
On Saturday, David Gauke ended his column on this site by mentioning two groups of people on the centre-right: small state free marketeers and One Nation social liberals. It would be easy to assume that both groups automatically cohere. But they don’t....
Tony Smith: Turning the tide on migrant boats
Tony Smith is a former Head of the UK Border Force and Director of Ports and Borders in both the UK and Canada. He is now Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd, and Chairman of the International Border Management and Technologies Association. Rarely a day goes by...
