Friday, 14 May 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Population and immigration undercounted
Thousands more migrants are in the UK than previously claimed after officials under estimated the size of the population, the Government's statisticians admitted...
Telegraph.co.uk (14-May-2010)

Would-be Labour leaders, take the Mrs Duffy test
The next Labour leader must grasp the mood of our core votes and take the fight to the...
Guardian.co.uk (14-May-2010)

ENGLISH IS SECOND LANGUAGE FOR 1MILLION CHILDREN
NEARLY a million school-children in Britain do not speak English as a first language. One in seven pupils use a different language at home double the rate of a decade...
Daily Star (14-May-2010)

ONE IN 7 PUPILS DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH AT HOME
NEARLY a million school children do not speak English as a first language, official figures revealed last night the latest disturbing indication of the impact of immigration on British...
Daily Express (14-May-2010)

DEPORTED CHILD TRAFFICKER SNEAKS BACK FOR CASH BID
A CONVICTED baby trafficker banned from Britain was arrested yesterday after she sneaked back into the country to claim thousands of pounds at an employment...
Daily Express (14-May-2010)

Tories grab monopoly of posts in the Home Office
Tories have secured all the key posts in the Home Office in a signal that David Cameron is determined not to give ground to his Liberal Democrat partners over law and order and immigration.
The Independent (14-May-2010)

61million now live in Britain: Migrant boom fuels 3m rise since 1997
Comments (0) Add to My Stories The number of people living in Britain has shot up by well over three million during Labour's 13 years in power, official figures confirmed...
The Mail On Sunday (14-May-2010)

Deported baby trafficker sneaks back in to UK so she can claim thousands at work tribunal
Comments (0) Add to My Stories Arrested: Convicted child trafficker Peace Sandberg arrives at an employment tribunal in London yesterday, despite being banned from the UK The ease with which illegal immigrants can enter the country was highlighted yesterday when a baby trafficker banned from the UK for ten.
The Mail On Sunday (13-May-2010)

Straw rules out Labour leader bid
Labour former justice secretary Jack Straw has announced that he will not be running in the party's leadership contest. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "I've had my 13th year on the front bench, 23 years since I was first elected to the shadow cabinet so I've had a good...
IC South London (13-May-2010)

New York town orders residents to speak English
A small town in rural New York state has passed a law that all town business be conducted in English, leading to accusations that it is stoking racial...
Telegraph.co.uk (13-May-2010)

Jury out in Chinese laundry illegal immigrant trial
A jury has retired to consider its verdict on two men accused of employing 23 illegal immigrants in...
BBC News Berkshire (13-May-2010)

Labour's lost millions, revisited
New Labour's model of state action plus free markets is broken. To win people back, we need a story that starts with...
Guardian.co.uk (13-May-2010)

Damian Green appointed immigration minister
KENT NEWS: Ashford MP Damian Green has been appointed immigration minister. He will be in charge of what was a contentious issue between the Tories and Lib Dems before they formed a...
Kent News (13-May-2010)

More pupils speak English as second language
A record 900,000 schoolchildren now speak English as a second language, official figures...
Telegraph.co.uk (13-May-2010)

Thousands of pupils being taught in 'illegal' large classes
Rising numbers of infants are being taught in 'large' classes above the legal limit, official figures showed today. Some 31,640 five to seven-year-olds are now taught in classes with more than 30 pupils, compared with 28,870 a year ago, according to statistics published by the Department for...
Mail Online (13-May-2010)

Theresa May: Police on the beat a priority
Putting police back on the streets and slashing bureaucracy are among the Government's top priorities, Home Secretary Theresa May said today. The Conservative Cabinet member said the new administration wants to put a "clear focus" on allowing police to do their job and get out on the...
The Independent (13-May-2010)

Now the real work begins on the deficit
After the striking display of cordiality between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats yesterday, today the Cabinet has met to start the real work. The priority is reducing the deficit of £163 billion, though that figure excludes the debts that Gordon Brown kept off the public balance sheet through the...
Evening Standard (13-May-2010)

Theresa May on immigration limits for non-EU migrants
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Newly-appointed Home Secretary Theresa May has said the government will introduce "an annual limit on the number of economic migrants from outside the European Union".
BBC News; Isle of Man (13-May-2010)

Department by department, what the new Government plans to do
Independent writers explain who came out on top in the policy...
The Independent (13-May-2010)

Watch out! Lord Ashcroft starts the blame game
David Cameron was barely over the threshold of 10 Downing Street before the public inquest had started into the lamentable Tory election campaign