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UK immigration

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Starmer and Macron close in on migrant returns deal

    Final touches being made to ‘one in, one out’ pilot scheme

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    Lady Victoria Starmer and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer greet French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte outside 10 Downing Street
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    French politics
    Macron urges Britain and France to move on from Brexit and work ‘side by side’

    French president says two countries have ‘special responsibility’ for security of Europe

    French President Emmanuel Macron addresses parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK politics
    UK investor visa would attract ‘criminals and spies’, campaigners warn

    Ministers considering scheme for people who contribute to areas such as AI and clean energy

    A UK visa stamp is seen on a passport
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UK visa revamp allows lower-skilled office workers to come to Britain

    Rules aimed at tightening regime will at first make provision for temporary shortages in non-graduate occupations

    Commuters walk through Canary Wharf in London
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Small boat crossings to UK soar in first half of year

    Data underscores severe challenge facing Labour government as it seeks to cut irregular migration

    A group of people board a smuggler’s boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off a beach in northern France
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Keir Starmer
    Starmer apologises for ‘island of strangers’ remark

    Climbdown over comments that echoed language of Enoch Powell is latest reversal from PM

    Keir Starmer giving the May 12 ‘island of strangers’ speech
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    News in-depth
    How Reform’s anti-asylum message won over Durham’s former mining communities

    Populist party is already taking credit for a Home Office contractor’s pause in asylum placements

    General view of Stanley front street
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    White British — the two words toxifying politics

    Serious social issues, perceived and real, will not be fixed by supercharging racial grievance

    Illustration of a fine china floral tea cup full of tea with milk, but cracked at the top, standing it its saucer with a biscuit on the side on a Union Jack tablecloth
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Starmer says small boats crisis in English Channel is ‘deteriorating’

    PM’s comments cast doubt on Labour’s election pledge to ‘smash the gangs’ and curb illegal crossings

    Police in Gravelines, France, confront a group of people trying to board small boats heading for England last week
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Northern Ireland
    ‘Locals live here’: racist attacks inflame Northern Ireland’s divisions

    Police chief appeals for end to anti-immigrant violence in region with painful past

    A police officer in riot gear stands beside an overturned, burning vehicle on a street during a night protest in Ballymena
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    UK employment
    UK lacks skilled workers for new defence and nuclear projects, says union leader

    Mike Clancy argues ‘managed immigration’ is needed in some specialist industries

    Mike Clancy
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    UK should relax income rules for family visas, government advisers say

    Requirement of £29,000 to bring a spouse to Britain is among highest in advanced world

    UK border control
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
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    In charts: can Kemi Badenoch hold on to Tory voters?

    Conservative leader will harden her immigration stance, but her party is no longer trusted by voters on the right

    Montage shows Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch against a polling data backdrop
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s small-boat policy risks foundering

    Conservative party’s previous success in ‘stopping the lorries’ makes reducing illicit migration harder for government

    A dinghy carrying migrants crossing the English Channel
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK calls on France to stop migrants in shallow waters after ‘shocking’ day

    Britain records year’s highest number of irregular migrant journeys across English Channel

    A dinghy carrying migrants enters the English Channel in Gravelines, France
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: would younger UK employees benefit by working on continent?
    Two young women walk along a city street
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    ‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change

    White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain

    Alexander Chreky
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    US applications for British citizenship hit record high after Trump win

    Immigration lawyers report surge in Americans looking to move to UK

    A British passport lies on top of a US flag
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Net migration to the UK almost halves in 2024

    Long-term immigration fell sharply to below 1mn for first time since 2022

    Passengers wait in line at the UK Border control at Heathrow airport
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    UK crime
    Tommy Robinson to be released from prison within days

    Far-right activist’s 18-month contempt of court sentence reduced by High Court

    Tommy Robinson arriving at the Old Bailey in London, England in July 2019
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Political Fix podcast37 min listen
    Labour's immigration crackdown

    Plus: latest prisons shake-up

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    UK politics
    Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish

    Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s

    Shamima Begum
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s immigration speech fits with Labour tradition, but so does losing

    Party leadership’s echo of precedent should hardly justify current policy given record of drift and defeat

    Harold Wilson
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    ‘It will be horrendous’: care crisis warning as UK ends overseas recruitment

    Providers say ministers have ‘not been upfront’ about the barriers facing the sector

    Stella Shaw
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    FT WealthClare Maurice
    The UK needs to make it simpler for the wealthy to move here

    There is no longer a visa for successful entrepreneurs to secure residency by investing in the country

    Illustration with a businessman walking a tightrope connected to the UK on a map
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