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Migration: skills and the job market : In the News
VIDEO: Immigration and population debate
- Source: BBC Democracy Live
3rd February 2010
Tory MP Nicholas Soames claimed the government has attempted to "dodge the numbers" to camouflage the failure of its immigration policy, in a debate in Westminster Hall on 2 February 2010. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said the population will rise to 71.6m by 2033 if current trends in growth continue.
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Claims over immigrant return to Poland ‘not true’
- Source: BBC News
- 22nd January 2010
A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true.
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Cameron’s call for immigration cap woos voters in Labour seats
- Source: The Times
- 18th January 2010
David Cameron could clinch a general election victory by placing a cap of 50,000 on net immigration, a new opinion poll shows.
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David Cameron calls for immigration curbs to keep population below 70 million
- Source: The Times
- 11th January 2010
David Cameron called yesterday for the population of Britain to be kept below 70 million. The Conservative Party leader said that it was not unrealistic to reduce net immigration to levels recorded in the 1990s and that the current trends were “too much”.
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MPs urge ‘70m population cap’ in party manifestos
- Source: BBC News
- 6th January 2010
A cross-party group of MPs and peers have called on the main parties to make a manifesto pledge not to allow the UK's population to exceed 70 million.
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PM to ‘tighten’ migration rules
- Source: BBC News
- 12th November 2009
Gordon Brown has promised to "tighten" the UK's immigration rules by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe.
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Minister admits: we got it wrong on immigration
- Source: The Times
- 3rd November 2009
In his first speech on the subject, Alan Johnson said that ministers had ignored immigration problems and the growing pressure on jobs and services in parts of Britain. Some communities had legitimate concerns because they had been particularly affected.
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UK population ‘to rise to 71.6m’
- Source: BBC News
- 21st October 2009
The population of the UK will rise from 61m to 71.6m by 2033 if current trends in growth continue, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
Just over two-thirds of the increase is likely to be related directly or indirectly to migration to the UK.
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