London mayor says hard-working immigrants out-compete Britons
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18:44 09/04/2013
London Mayor Boris Johnson has said that it is 'no wonder' that young Britons are being outcompeted for jobs by immigrants who come to the UK from eastern Europe. Mr Johnson says that eastern...
Think tank says scrapping UK immigration authority could be a mistake
17:16 05/04/2013
The Institute for Government, a London think tank which aims to encourage more effective government, has questioned whether the abolition of the UK Border Agency (UKBA) announced last week is a good...
The world wants to emigrate says Gallup poll
19:55 04/04/2013
A global poll conducted by Gallup suggests that around 640m people around the world, 13% of the world's adult population, want to emigrate. Most, but by no means all of these come from Asia and...
UK ministers considered barring children of illegal immigrants from schools
17:35 03/04/2013
The Guardian, a national UK newspaper, has received a leaked email trail from UK civil servants which seems to show that UK ministers considered the possibility of preventing the children of illegal...
MPs quiz civil servants about UK immigration and visa services
13:25 03/04/2013
On Tuesday 26th March 2013, a committee of MPs interviewed two senior civil servants about the way the UK's immigration services will be run in future. The interview came just minutes after the Home...
Main UK immigration body to be abolished because it is 'not good enough'
13:45 28/03/2013
The UK's Home Secretary, Theresa May MP, has told the House of Commons that the UK's main immigration authority, the UK Border Agency (UKBA), is to be split because it is 'not good enough'. She says...
