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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    New UK worker visa rules to close system to employers in key shortage areas

    Warning by government migration adviser comes ahead of sharp rise in salary floors for overseas hires

    A worker carrying bricks on a construction site
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK and EU agree to co-operate more closely on migration

    Britain and border agency Frontex to share intelligence and swap liaison staff in latest evidence of thawing relations

    Frontex official
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Home secretary sacks UK’s chief inspector of borders

    Move comes after outgoing head of watchdog was highly critical of government in string of interviews

    David Neal, HM inspector of borders and immigration
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Jo Johnson
    How to fix the international student debacle

    The government needs to retain global interest in UK universities, before it is too late

    Students on campus University of Essex
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    UK dentists warn staff ‘crisis’ will worsen without more overseas recruits

    Concerns come as children’s dental health is deteriorating and waiting lists for appointments are high

    Hundreds of people have queued through the day to register as NHS patients at the St Pauls Dental Practice in Bristol
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Interview
    UK has ‘no strategy’ for housing asylum seekers, says borders’ chief inspector

    David Neal says government has obstructed oversight of immigration system

    David Neal
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Human rights
    Rwanda bill flouts UK’s human rights’ obligations, MPs warn

    Report by cross-party committee highlights concerns over PM’s migration plan as it begins to undergo scrutiny in the Lords

    Protesters campaigning against the Rwanda policy outside the Supreme Court in London
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    UK employers race for staff visas ahead of new immigration rules

    Companies will have to pay much higher salaries to people recruited on skilled worker visas from April

  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    MBA
    UK business schools warn student visa change will hit MBA recruitment

    Rules preventing foreign students from bringing dependants prompt concerns over applications and diversity

    Oluseye Owolabi looking out into the horizon. A river lined with trees is behind him
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Sunak criticised for accepting £1,000 bet over Rwanda policy

    Opposition MPs attack UK PM for agreeing to wager by TV presenter Piers Morgan on flagship migration plan

    Rishi Sunak and Piers Morgan shake hands during the interview
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The education exports that governments would rather ignore

    Ministers should explain the benefits and address the costs of attracting foreign students

    Students walk through the London School of Economics campus in London
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Sunak’s bid to clear the asylum backlog backfires, say lawyers

    UK prime minister’s rush to resolve a costly pile-up in claims left statistical and human errors in its wake

    The government’s drive to clear the asylum backlog was spurred by the need to reduce the amount of taxpayer money being spent on accommodating applicants in hotels
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Demographics and population
    UK population to hit 70mn faster than expected, says ONS

    Estimates for net migration higher than the assumed level underpinning latest Budget forecasts

  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Inside Politics
    DUP deal to restore power-sharing still faces threats

    Plus, UK’s post-study visa at a crossroads

    A group of students in graduation attire walk through a building
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Surge in number of overseas graduates working in UK care sector

    Research reveals 6-fold increase as international students use relaxation of visa rules to stay in Britain

    University students at a graduation ceremony
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    UK migration reforms will not end lower pay for foreign workers, says top policy adviser

    MAC chair accuses government of ‘do as I say’ attitude over raising salary threshold for skilled overseas recruits

    Brian Bell
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Rwanda plan threatens to put UK in breach of legal obligations, says ECHR

    European court president underlines requirement to obey emergency orders as PM seeks to pass migration bill

    Síofra O’Leary
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    UK local government finance
    Soaring homelessness threatens to tip English councils into insolvency

    Local authorities demand urgent increase to ‘housing benefit subsidy’ at emergency Westminster meeting

    Homeless people on the street in Preston
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Sunak’s Rwanda asylum plan suffers setback in House of Lords

    Peers vote to require the UK government to show the east African nation is a safe place to send migrants

    Rishi Sunak
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    In praise of mass immigration

    High levels of it are a sign of a healthy and dynamic society

    James Ferguson illustration of multicoloured footprints depicting mass immigration
  • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
    FT SeriesJobs of the future
    Care conundrum: demographic shifts create jobs but not workers

    Demand for care staff is certain to rise, but providers are already failing to fill vacancies

    FT montage of a care worker helping an elderly patient
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    It’s time to be honest about the challenge of immigration

    There is a mismatch between the numbers of people seeking a home in the UK and the scale of arrivals that voters will accept

    Illustration of person with a red face shouting through a megaphone, with a speech bubble containing a small boat full of people in it, crossed with a big red X
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Sunak rapped by UK statistics watchdog over asylum backlog claim

    Second reprimand in two months comes as PM warns House of Lords not to frustrate ‘will of people’ over Rwanda bill

    Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in Downing Street on Thursday
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    OutlookZehra Munir
    Expulsion from Pakistan makes Afghan refugees a political football once more

    Islamabad’s crackdown on foreign nationals has disproportionately affected the well-established population

    Afghan refugees in a camp near the Torkham border crossing last November
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    UK politics
    Sunak secures Commons approval for Rwanda bill as rebel MPs back down

    Legislation now heads to the House of Lords where it is expected to have a rough ride

    Migrants are brought ashore in Dover after being picked up in the English Channel by a Border Force vessel on Wednesday
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