Mass deportations. That is what Nigel Farage has promised, taking to the stage to announce his new plan next to a huge prop of an airport departures board showing deportation flights to Afghanistan, Eritrea and Iran among others. Operation Restoring Justice, as Reform UK are calling this, is intended to remove hundreds of thousands of […]
We must leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – that is mine and Suella Braverman’s conclusion, in a new paper we have co-authored for the Prosperity Institute. Britain was one of the founding nations of the ECHR. Back in the 1950s, in the aftermath of the horrors of the Second World War, and […]
At the beginning of the year, Keir Starmer claimed that opposition politicians calling for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs were on the ‘bandwagon of the far-right’. Now he is apparently on the same bandwagon, having U-turned and agreed that a statutory national inquiry is necessary. That comes after Baroness Casey’s rapid audit into […]
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest national population projections. It estimates that, between mid-2022 and mid-2032, the population will rise by 4.9 million to a high of 72.5m, overtaking France. These projections presume both that a decline in fertility and medical improvements to life expectancy through medicine will continue. The increase […]
The latest Home Office migration statistics have been released, showing that the overall number of people coming to the UK has reduced, at least since the last set of figures. Restrictions to the Immigration Rules brought in by the Conservatives before their general election defeat have succeeded, at least in their limited aims. Health and […]
What is this election about? The Prime Minister’s campaign video set it out: amidst a moody cacophony of crises – the Covid pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’ attack on Israel –he heads to the door of Number 10, to tell the people that his actions have won Britain economic stability, a stability which must […]
Having promised to stop the boats, the Government finds itself in a difficult situation where the number of those crossing the Channel in small boats has increased. Between January and the end of March this year a record 5,000 people have crossed., the largest number to cross in the first quarter of the year since […]
A few weeks ago Jeremy Corbyn managed to upset an entire country. It began innocently enough, when he tweeted about his “very productive meeting with UK representatives from the Indian Congress Party” during which they had “discussed the human rights situation in Kashmir”. In most contexts that might have been innocuous enough, but for the Congress […]
When the Conservative party went to Manchester this year for their conference they were greeted with a banner on a nearby bridge proclaiming “130,000 killed under Tory rule – time to level the playing field”, complete with effigies of bodies hanging from nooses. The Manchester branch of Momentum quickly tweeted their support before deleting it […]
