Sunday, 13 November 2011

A selection of recent media reports

May under pressure after new border claims
Home Secretary Theresa May is under renewed political pressure after it emerged passengers on British-registered co
Channel 4 News (13-Nov-2011)

GET CONTROL OF OUR BORDERS TO BLOCK BOGUS IMMIGRANTS
IT HAS never been easier to get into the UK, set up home and take advantage of all the services that are freely off
Express.co.uk (13-Nov-2011)

This Government, like all before it, will only be happy when we have... The UK No Border Agency
If anyone had ever asked us, we would have said that we did not want millions of people from Asia, the Balkans or the dead Soviet Empire migrating to this country.
Mail on Sunday (13-Nov-2011)

A CHANCE FOR PROPER IMMIGRATION DEBATE, AT LAST
THE ruling by the government that if an individual creates an e-petition about any policy that is the government's responsibility and gets at least 100,000 people to sign, it is eligible for debate in the house of Commons appears to have opened some interesting possibilities.
Sunday Express (13-Nov-2011)

The new border agency scandal: Passport control allow millions into Dover without full checks after Labour secretly rela..
) Millions of coach
The Mail On Sunday (13-Nov-2011)

Labour dragged into border fiasco over dropped passport checks
Millions of people are feared to have been allowed into Britain without full passport checks in a major new borders scandal.
The Telegraph (13-Nov-2011)

New Claims Of Lax UK Border Controls
Sunday, 13 November 2011 04:21 New claims about lax border controls and the deeply disfunctional state of the agen
Classic FM (13-Nov-2011)

Porous Borders Let Millions into Britain, Says Report
Millions of people have entered the UK without undergoing proper background checks through Dover, the cou
International Business Times UK (13-Nov-2011)

Bus border checks 'lax since 2007'
Coach passengers were allowed into the UK without being properly checked by border staff for four years, it has been rep
London Evening Standard (13-Nov-2011)

Checks on Asylum seekers halted in row over stab vests
) Border control chiefs ordered officers to stop carrying out crucial checks on asylum seekers because of a d
The Mail On Sunday (13-Nov-2011)

Labour's Chris Bryant warns weakened immigration checks could have let in hundreds this summer
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Mirror.co.uk (13-Nov-2011)

Police told me to relax passport rules, says former borders chief
Home secretary on the ropes after telling the Commons that Brodie Clark had acted improperly
Guardian.co.uk (13-Nov-2011)

Four out of five people think our country is too crowded
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People.co.uk (13-Nov-2011)

Bus border checks 'lax since 2007\u2032
Coach passengers were allowed into the UK without being properly checked by border staff for four years, it has been rep
Express & Star (13-Nov-2011)

CRIMINALS ENTER UK AS BORDER STAFF BATTLE OVER TARGETS
DANGEROUS foreign criminals are being allowed into Britain while Border staff are told to battle with each
Sunday Express (13-Nov-2011)

CRIMINALS ENTER UK AS BORDER STAFF BATTLE OVER TARGETS
DANGEROUS foreign criminals are being allowed into Britain while Border staff are told to battle with each
Express.co.uk (13-Nov-2011)