A selection of recent media reports
Paedophile who abducted underage girls for sex can't be deported... because of HIS human rights
A Pakistani paedophile who abducted and sexually abused two young girls cannot be deported back to his native country because it would breach his human rights, it emerged...
Mail Online (20-Apr-2010)
BBC's Daniel Sandford examines Lib Dem amnesty plans
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Conservative leader David Cameron says Liberal Democrat plans for a selective amnesty for illegal immigrants are a "huge mistake".
BBC News Cornwall (20-Apr-2010)
Tories launch damage-limitation exercise as Cameron is hit by plagiarism claims
The Conservative leader David Cameron is being forced to rethink his election strategy amid signs of a mid-campaign wobble by the Tories after the surge in support for the Liberal Democrat leader Nick...
The Independent (20-Apr-2010)
Damian Green talks to Sun Cabbie
THE Sun is challenging the nation's top politicians to talk straight to The Sun Cabbie. Taxi driver Grant Davis, 46, is taking leading MPs to task on behalf of our readers in the run-up to the General Election on May...
Online Sun (20-Apr-2010)
LEO MCKINSTRY: The Lib Dems' stance on immigrants is their most dishonest (and dangerous) policy yet
The Lib Dems' surge continues to gather momentum, transforming the nature of British politics. For the first time in more than a century, they are the front-runners in an election campaign, something that would have been unthinkable before Nick Clegg's assured performance in last week's historic TV...
The Mail On Sunday (19-Apr-2010)
Man jailed for 'frenzied' killing
A man who brutally murdered a nurse during a "frenzied attack" has been sentenced to life in...
Yorkshire Evening Post (19-Apr-2010)
Barking born and 'stuck in a slum'
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. As the population is predicted to reach 70 million by 2030, pressure on housing stock will continue to grow, fuelled in part by immigration.
BBC News (19-Apr-2010)
The mood on the campaign trail
BBC correspondents who are with the three leaders on every twist and turn of the campaign trail assess the mood at the start of week three, following a tumultuous weekend of...
BBC News (19-Apr-2010)
Illegal immigration: Is an amnesty the answer?
Home affairs correspondent, BBC News Where They Stand: Immigration More from Reality Check Welcome to Reality Check. Today I'm scrutinising Liberal Democrat plans for an amnesty for people who have come to Britain...
BBC News (19-Apr-2010)
Immigration proving a big issue on Yarmouth doorsteps
Labour's Tony Wright, who has been Great Yarmouth's MP for 13 years, said after the first few days of campaigning, immigration had emerged as a significant issue on the...
Advertiser 24 (19-Apr-2010)
Eh? Support for the BNP has nothing to do with immigration?
A quite bizarre report from the IPPR which attempts to prove that it is not immigration which tempts people to vote BNP, but a lack of resilience. This fatuous word, resilience, is used more and more by government and quangos and local councils, usually to transfer blame to ordinary people for the...
The Spectator (19-Apr-2010)
Illegal sex beast to stay in UK
A JUDGE sparked outrage today after ruling that an illegal immigrant sex monster jailed for preying on two teenage girls should be allowed to stay in...
Online Sun (19-Apr-2010)
Election 2010: Asian voter turnout 'set to fall'
Politics reporter, BBC Asian Network The record number of South Asian candidates standing in the 2010 election appears to be doing little to encourage members of their communities to head to the ballot box, according to a...
BBC News (19-Apr-2010)
Paedophile who abducted underage girls for sex wins deportation appeal to stay in UK
A paedophile who abducted and had sex with underage girls is to be allowed to stay in the UK. Pakistani national Zulfar Hussain has won his appeal against deportation just weeks before he is due to be released from prison after serving half of his...
The Mail On Sunday (19-Apr-2010)
London holds the keys to No10
Voters in the capital will decide who forms the next government, says the Evening Standard's political editor Joe...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (19-Apr-2010)
General Election Yorkshire: Candidates hit the streets
With a Labour majority of more than 8,600, the solid working class seat of Morley and Outwood should be a shoo-in for Ed...
Yorkshire Evening Post (19-Apr-2010)
This is not the way to defeat BNP
THE decision by Churches Together in Penrith not to host an election meeting in the town for fear of giving a platform to the British National Party is understandable, but...
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald (19-Apr-2010)
Phil Woolas talks immigration: We count people out and we count people in
Immigration was once the issue that dare not speak its name among labour people. Not any more. It's out there, in public, upfront and frank. For many voters it's second in importance only to the...
Mirror.co.uk (19-Apr-2010)
Police arrest 'Middle-Eastern Mafia' charging £1,000 to bring migrants to Britain
Ten members of a suspected people-trafficking gang believed to have smuggled hundreds of illegal immigrants into Britain have been arrested in...
Mail Online (19-Apr-2010)
Social breakdown, not immigration, fuels BNP support - study
Social breakdown, not immigration, fuels BNP support - study High levels of immigration into an area does not result in the local community supporting the British National Party, a report revealed...
24Dash.com (19-Apr-2010)
Press Releases
Lib Dem immigration policies get thumbs down from the public and their own supporters
Voters in Great Britain were asked whether they supported or opposed the Lib Dem policy of giving a two year work permit leading to permanent settlement to those who have been living illegally in the UK for ten years, subject to civic and language tests. 54% were opposed (36% strongly) while only 30% were in favour (5% strongly). 11% neither supported or opposed the policy and 3% did not know. Of those intending to vote Lib Dem, less than half supported the policy.
The other flagship policy is to offer special incentives to encourage economic migrants to settle in less populated regions of the UK. As Scotland is most frequently mentioned by the Lib Dems in this context, voters there were asked for their opinion. They opposed it by almost two to one. 51% were opposed (30% strongly) while only 27% supported the proposal (6% strongly). 20% neither supported nor opposed and 2% did not know. Again, of Lib Dem supporters in Scotland, less than half supported this proposal.
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of MigrationwatchUK who commissioned the poll from YouGov, said “When people look more closely at Lib Dem immigration policy they realise just how weak it is. They can see that what amounts to an amnesty will simply encourage further illegal immigration as both Italy with five amnesties and Spain with six in the past 25 years have found to their cost. As for the much touted regional immigration policy it is clearly unpopular even in Scotland which they invariably mention as a candidate. No wonder less than half their supporters agree with these policies.”
2 YouGov are a member of the British Polling Council and abide by their rules
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