A selection of recent media reports
A Labour manifesto mired in the past
'This is a manifesto about the future. We are looking forward.' So declared the Prime Minister yesterday as he laid out his party's blueprint for a fourth term in...
Mail Online (13-Apr-2010)
PUPILS WITH 39 LANGUAGES PUT SCHOOL IN CRISIS
A FAILING secondary school is being forced to beg for multi-lingual volunteers to help teachers cope with the 39 different languages spoken by its...
Daily Express (13-Apr-2010)
National Pride
There is a school of thought that political correctness prevents the British public from speaking freely on immigration. If only we could, the thinking goes, we would all cry send em back, or at the very least lock the doors. This is a myth. It is peddled by those who either do not understand Britain, or do not like what they see if they do.
The Times (12-Apr-2010)
Immigration: the 'silent' election issue
A walk along the River Nene provided many picture postcard delights yesterday. There were views of Peterboroughs gothic cathedral, weeping willows, and swans gliding by as a family moored their boat to picnic.
The Times (12-Apr-2010)
Home ownership central to Labour housing manifesto
The Labour Party will fight the General Election with pledges to extend home ownership to people on modest incomes and make savings in funding for...
Inside Housing (12-Apr-2010)
General election 2010: what's really happening to immigration?
Questions around immigraiton have been dogging the election so far. So what's really going on? Get the...
Guardian.co.uk (12-Apr-2010)
Children evacuated from lethal rabbit warren flats
Two families including four children were moved out of death-trap flats by safety inspectors who said the property was like a giant rabbit warren . Newham council placed the residents in emergency accommodation and served an Emergency Prohibition Order on the pair of two-storey flats in Romford Road, Manor.
Evening Standard (12-Apr-2010)
Immigration debated by Peterborough candidates
Many have come to the region to work, finding jobs in sectors such as food processing and packaging. But there have been concerns that the growing population of the city has put a strain on public...
BBC News (12-Apr-2010)
Buckingham candidates raise housing concerns
Housing concerns have been raised in the election for the Buckingham...
BBC News Liverpool (12-Apr-2010)
Today on SunTalk
Labour's open door policy on immigration has led to English becoming a minority language in 1,500 UK schools. Your views on 020 33 64 7000 Prince Harry spends £10,000 in 4 hours on champagne for...
Online Sun (12-Apr-2010)
Foreign workers 'to face English tests'
English tests will be made compulsory for all public sector migrant workers, under manifesto pledges to be announced by Gordon Brown today. All workers in contact with the public - such as nurses, community support officers, social workers and call centre staff - will have to pass a test to get a...
The Mail On Sunday (12-Apr-2010)
English language divide in 1,500 schools
Children who speak English as their first language are a minority in more than 1,500 schools, official figures have revealed. They show there has been a sharp rise in the number of schools in England where more than half of pupils have a foreign language as their mother...
Mail Online (12-Apr-2010)
As loathsome as ever: Nick Griffin's BNP is STILL the party of racist lies, violent thuggery and vicious anti-semitism
The Cross of St George is blowing in the breeze outside Clive Neal's end of terrace in Barking. Mr Neal is 61. He took early retirement from the Dagenham Ford plant in 2002 when car production finally stopped and many thousands of jobs were...
Mail Online (12-Apr-2010)
'ENGLISH' PUPILS BECOME MINORITY IN 1,500 UK SCHOOLS
LABOUR S open-door policy on immigration is leading to English becoming a second language in schools across Britain, figures revealed...
Daily Express (12-Apr-2010)
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: If we close our borders, we close our minds
A fear creeps up on me. I hear my late mother's exhortative voice, her frequent warnings: "Don't show your anger to them. They will take away your...
The Independent (12-Apr-2010)
TORIES MUST SPELL OUT HOW THEY'LL CURB IMMIGRATION
IT DOESN'T matter whether the massive influx of immigrants over the past 13 years was caused by Labour s incompetence or their alleged policy of social engineering. The harm is now...
Daily Express (12-Apr-2010)
Press Releases
Migrationwatch response to the Labour Manifesto
April, 12 2010Commenting on the section on immigration in the Labour Party Manifesto, Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green said today:
'On immigration, Labour's manifesto shows some glimpses of light. Breaking the link between economic migration and permanent settlement is a valuable step forward. Mention of limits on high skilled workers and university students would be more significant if any such limits were specified. But on the central issue of an overall limit to immigration, the manifesto is deeply unconvincing. The authors were clearly ducking and weaving to avoid the commitment that really matters to the public, namely a broad policy objective to achieve a sharp reduction in immigration.'
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