March, 5 2009
Migration restrictions are a bad way to fight unemployment in times of crisis. There is no evidence less immigration means less unemployment in the UK or anywhere else, argues the ODI's Massimiliano Calì
New Statesman - (04/03)
Recent figures on immigration from the Office for National Statistics only served to make the debate even more...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free - (04/03)
The Office of National Statistics is being sinister by playing politics with immigration figures, according to immigration minister Phil Woolas. The accusation is that the ONS has included footballers in the Premier League and other people who are not traditionally included in immigration figures to give...
Publicservice.co.uk - (04/03)
More than 10,000 foreign citizens have been given National Insurance numbers to work in London's Olympic borough in just six months, government figures have revealed.
The Evening Standard - (04/03)
) Here we go again. Last month, when the Office of National Statistics published some embarrassing figures on the number of jobs being taken by foreign born workers, ministers hurled their toys from the...
Daily Mail - (04/03)
A row has erupted over crucial population figures between a Government minister and official statisticians. Immigration minister Phil Woolas accused the Office for National Statistics of playing politics with official...
LocalGov.co.uk - (04/03)
A man has been charged following raids by police in...
BBC News Leicestershire - (04/03)
Phil Woolas questions publication of figures that say one in nine British residents are foreign...
Guardian.co.uk - (04/03)
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has accused the Office for National Statistics of "playing politics" with population figures. He said he was "appalled" at the release of figures showing one in nine British residents was born...
BBC News - (04/03)
British and Irish citizens will not have to carry documents to cross the border Checks on people crossing the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic may lead to discrimination, the Human Rights Commission has...
Newstin - (04/03)
Immigration minister Phil Woolas has accused the Office of National Statistics of "playing politics" with the release of some of its figures.
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme - (04/03)
The independent statistics body for Britain has a 'sinister' attitude to immigration, a minister has claimed. Phil Woolas questioned the motives of the Office for National Statistics in publishing figures showing one in nine UK residents was born abroad.
The Daily Mail - (04/03)
A minister has criticised the Office for National Statistics over the "sinister" release of immigration data, fuelling an increasingly bitter row between the Government and the independent...
Telegraph.co.uk - (04/03)
An apparent feud between the Government and the country's independent statistics body has deepened after immigration minister Phil Woolas accused it of "playing politics".
Sunday Express - (04/03)
- 03:22 AM Britain has barred entry to two members of a US church for inciting hatred against gays and others, the government said Thursday on the eve of a planned protest by the radical...
GTR - (04/03)
Circuses in Britain are running short of performers, including tightrope walkers and flying trapeze artists, because of difficulties with short-term visas under the new points-based immigration system, MPs were told...
Newstin - (04/03)
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Nationalising British jobs
Behind the headlines
ONS 'sinister' with immigration data
Influx of 10,000 foreign workers for Olympic jobs
What is 'sinister' is a minister seeking to suppress the truth
Minister sparks population figures row
Charge follows immigration raids
Statistics body 'playing politics' with immigration figures, minister says | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Minister 'appalled' by stats body
Border checks 'may discriminate'
Home affairs editor Mark Easton explains the feud between the government and the statistics body.
Immigration minister attacks statistics chiefs for publishing 'sinister' race numbers
Phil Woolas attacks ONS for 'sinister' immigration data release
RELEASE OF IMMIGRATION DATA BLASTED
:: Britain bans members of anti-gay US church ::
Immigration system takes toll on arts
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