Lord Heseltine: Foreign students should be excluded from UK immigration cuts
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11:36 24/09/2014
A former UK deputy Prime Minister has called for foreign students to be excluded from the UK government's immigration figures, explaining that students are 'not the sort of people causing the anxiety...
Record number of visitors to the UK from Philippines
10:58 24/09/2014
New records were set for the numbers of Filipino visitors traveling to the UK. In the 12 months prior to March 2014, 49,000 visas were issued to Filipinos. There was a 27% increase in the number of...
Immigration to be key battleground in UK general election
16:55 17/09/2014
There are still nine months until the UK's next general election. The main parties are preparing for a lengthy campaign and have already hinted at details of some of their policies, although their...
Deputy PM: UK has scrapped plans to reduce immigration to 'tens of thousands'
11:26 17/09/2014
The UK's Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, says that the UK coalition government has scrapped plans to reduce annual immigration to below 100,000 annually. Mr Clegg, the leader of the Liberal...
UK to remove migrant workers' tax-free allowance
19:00 04/09/2014
The UK government is considering changes to the tax system which could cost low-paid migrant workers thousands of pounds a year. The changes could mean that some will find it less attractive to come...
Latest UK labour statistics indicate rise in immigration
17:31 04/09/2014
The latest figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics show that the number of foreign-born workers in the UK labour force grew by 170,000 between April and June this year. The number of UK-...
