UK economists debate effects of immigration
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15:53 12/09/2013
A spat about immigration has broken out between two of Britain's leading economic commentators. They are Jeremy Warner, who writes for the right-wing Daily Telegraph and Jonathan Portes, the director...
UK poll shows immigration divides the nation
12:43 06/09/2013
A poll of British adults has found that the question of immigration arouses strong feelings. The poll was commissioned by the former chairman of the UK's right-of-centre Conservative Party, Lord...
UK Immigration opportunities as 1.3m graduates emigrate
11:43 27/08/2013
Figures released by the UK's Office for National Statistics show that there are now 1.3m British graduates living and working overseas. This is more than any other developed country. Germany comes...
Plumbing tycoon: immigration does not take jobs from British workers
15:17 21/08/2013
Charlie Mullins, the millionaire founder of London's Pimlico Plumbers, has said that there are so many immigrant workers in the UK because there are insufficient British workers to fill the available...
Immigration responsible for much of UK population growth
13:36 13/08/2013
Newly released figures show that the UK's population rose by 419,900 in the year to June 2012. Of this rise, about 40% (165,000) was caused by immigration and the rest by a baby boom in the UK. But...
US Representatives face summer of immigration pressure
14:50 08/08/2013
Congressmen and women have gone home for the summer recess while Congress is closed in August. President Obama had hoped that Congress would, by now, have passed an immigration reform bill but there...
