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A selection of recent media reports

Immigration cap could damage Britain's reputation for scientific excellence, Nobel prize-winners claim Britains reputation for... Telegraph.co.uk (By Laura Roberts) (07-Oct-2010)

US deports nearly 400,000 immigrants The US government has deported a record number of undocumented immigrants - around 400,000 - this year, officials said. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and assistant secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, said 392,000 people have been deported by the ICE... Irish Sun (07-Oct-2010)

MAIL COMMENT: Enjoy the praise, but your real test is ahead This was an assured... The Mail On Sunday (Daily Mail Comment) (07-Oct-2010)

Child benefit: there's plenty of welfare on offer to the Poles The removal of middle-class child benefit payments is unjust, argues Philip Johnston Daily Telegraph (06-Oct-2010)

Thousands of Skilled Brits Get Ready To Move Down Under Every year, thousands of... Global Investor (06-Oct-2010)

UK's population will hit 70million by 2027 if immigration goes unchecked Britains fast-growing.. The Mail On Sunday (Steve Doughty) (06-Oct-2010)

Comment

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Mrs Bercow and Migrationwatch

6 October, 2010

In a discussion programme on Sky News on 18 August, Mrs Bercow associated Migrationwatch with Mosley and Hitler. When we heard about this, we asked for a copy of the programme and obtained a transcript of precisely what she had said. After taking advice from counsel we asked our solicitors to write to her seeking an apology and an undertaking not to repeat such an allegation. In their response, solicitors for Mrs Bercow said that she "did not intend to (and did not) allege that Migrationwatch is a fascist or racist organisation", that she was expressing an honest opinion about the handling of a Migrationwatch report by the Daily Express and that she had a right to do so in a democratic society.

Migrationwatch are strongly in favour of free speech. We accept her assurances about her intentions, and consider that important and sensitive issues such as immigration should be debated without descending into derogatory language and associations.

In view of the assurance contained in her solicitor’s letter, we do not intend to take the matter further.