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UK immigration

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Starmer says UK in talks with ‘returns hubs’ to take failed asylum seekers

    Britain will work with other countries to remove migrants, PM confirms during Albania trip

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer is shown the procedures carried out by search teams as they check vehicles in Tirana
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    The State of Britain
    The ambiguity of the UK’s immigration plans Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, changes to ONS’s employment survey yield results

    Keir Starmer standing at a lectern
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Democracy’s downward spiral leaves Starmer no leeway on immigration

    Broken promises played midwife to Brexit and are capable of powering Reform — or a Conservative facsimile — into office

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Keir falling into a downward spiral like in the poster for the film ‘Vertigo’
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Fixing UK workforce should be a goal in itself, not a means to cut migration

    Solving deep domestic problems demands reform and political honesty

    Four people welding
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Migrants who arrived in UK after 2020 face five more years on settlement path

    Government’s migration crackdown set to double default period for those pursuing potential pathway to citizenship

    Shoppers in London
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Keir Starmer’s tough talk on immigration

    To reduce inflows of foreign workers, Labour must address the shortages that drove them

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks in Downing Street
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Starmer rejects Enoch Powell parallel after ‘island of strangers’ speech

    Labour critics express concern about ‘chasing the tail of the right’ after migration announcement

    his controversial “rivers of blood” speech
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s immigration curbs come with noticeable cost to public realm

    Scrapping care worker visa was right but it is unlikely voters will stomach higher taxes to fund struggling sector

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Starmer faces business backlash over UK migration curbs

    Tough proposals including ending automatic settlement after five years would end ‘squalid chapter’ for country, PM says

    Keir Starmer, UK prime minister
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Starmer seeks to cut UK migration and refocus it on graduate work

    PM’s plan reverses post-Brexit liberalisation that allowed foreigners to fill positions in industries such as adult care

    Montage shows the Home Office logo against pictures of a care worker and a student
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    Migration cuts are a luxury the UK cannot afford

    Reducing freedom of movement comes at a cost and governments shouldn’t pretend otherwise

    A person contemplates a giant maze made out of passports of different nationalities
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    UK immigration plan: the key points

    A summary of the measures the government is taking in its quest to cut net migration

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    UK immigration debate ignores the real questions

    Policymaking should focus less on numbers and more on why people arrive, how they are treated and the impact on Britain

    Students in a lecture hall
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay

    Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

    A UK border sign at Heathrow airport
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    Sunder Katwala
    UK immigration debate needs to drop the numbers game

    Labour’s task is balancing public appetite for control with the party’s other policy goals

  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK universities
    Students lured to UK universities by ‘fake promises’ from recruitment agents

    Cash-strapped institutions turn to unregulated firms to reel in lucrative overseas income

    Natasha Fernandes in Mumbai
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    UK universities
    Almost half of England’s higher education providers braced for deficit

    Financial pressures are rising as international student recruitment falls due to migration curbs, says regulator

    Three Students at graduation ceremonies at the University of Birmingham
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    UK set to limit permanent residency for some migrants

    Labour seeks to show voters it is getting to grips with number of foreigners coming to work in Britain

    People queueing at UK border control
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Conservatives unveil plans to deport migrants who claim benefits

    Opposition bill includes annual cap on arrivals as party seeks to arrest flow of support to Reform UK

    Migrants board an inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
    Reform’s rise shows Labour must get serious about immigration

    With a more volatile electorate, all parties need to adapt to face down populism

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of paint coloured in the shades of the five political parties leaking from a ballot box
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Brexit
    UK edges closer to youth visa deal with the EU

    The bloc wants people under 30 from member states to be able to spend up to three years in the UK and vice versa

    Ed Miliband, Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen speak to delegate as Fatih Birol looks on
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    EU immigration
    UK and France in talks over a migrant returns agreement

    Britain would be able to deport one person in exchange for the French sending another individual the other way

    A crowded inflatable boat carrying a large group of migrants wearing life jackets and warm clothing, struggling to stay balanced as they cross a body of water
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    UK Home Office’s reform of graduate visas runs into opposition

    Education department at odds with plan to curb number of overseas students allowed to stay in Britain

    Students during a graduation ceremony at Loughborough University, England
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    UK cuts portion of foreign aid budget spent on asylum seekers in Britain

    Costs have fallen because fewer hotels are being used and migrant returns have risen sharply

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Anywhere But Here — deadly crossings and an asylum system fraught with further dangers

    A former diplomat’s unflinching account of migrant journeys to Britain advocates for more humane and practical reforms

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