UK and EU move towards clash on immigration
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10:22 10/02/2014
Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, has said that there is 'no chance' of a renegotiation of EU treaties resulting in a limitation on the right to free movement of labour within...
UK's attitude to EU immigration hardens
18:55 30/01/2014
Polls show that almost half of UK citizens do not believe that Romanians and Bulgarians should be allowed to live and work in the UK. More than half of people questioned in another recent poll...
'Flood' of Romanians fails to materialise on UK shores
9:19 24/01/2014
The UK prepared itself for an influx of Romanians and Bulgarians on 1st January 2014 but, so far at least, it hasn't happened. On 31st December 2013, transitional controls preventing the free...
UKIP leader calls for 5-year bar on UK immigration
10:14 14/01/2014
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has called for a total ban on permanent immigration into the UK for five years. He has also said that no one who comes to work in the UK...
UK misses immigration target again
9:28 16/12/2013
The UK's Office for National Statistics has released its latest immigration figures which show a rise of 15,000 in the UK's net annual immigration figure over the previous year. The net immigration...
UK Immigration Minister says 'targeted' spot checks will continue
18:53 02/12/2013
The UK's immigration minister Mark Harper has told the BBC that spot-checks of people's immigration status at UK railway stations will continue. Mr Harper said that the operations were intelligence-...
