Immigration
A target for net migration is too blunt an instrument.
Tory ministers Chris Grayling and Damian Green are manipulating the facts to suit their agenda.
MigrationWatch has been allowed to get away with irresponsible scaremongering for too long.
They have sacrificed their distinctive beliefs and principles and received little in return.
Rather than yet another debate about immigration, let's have a proper debate about population growth
Head of the UK Border Agency resigns, with a stinging attack on the Home Secretary.
The Home Secretary is struggling to contain the row over relaxed border controls.
Immigration has been stable since 2004 and Britain is far from "full".
A guest worker programme would be bad for migrants and bad for the economy.
"We’ve begun to be much more selective not just about how many people come in – but who actually com
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