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THE debate on the EU referendum campaign has been constrained and dominated by two equally reactionary unpalatable right-wing camps. It was given fresh oxygen by the publication yesterday of the Office for National Statistics long-term international migration estimates for 2015.
Total net migration into Britain and Northern Ireland came in above 300,000 for the fourth year in a row, at least demonstrating that the Tories are consistent in one area — failing to achieve their own back-of-the fag-packet targets.
Fourteen per cent of those migrating here in 2015 were returning British citizens, with the rest nearly evenly split between EU and non-EU citizens. More than two-thirds of the 250,000 migrants from the EU came for work-related reasons. The overwhelming majority had employment already lined up.
MARJORIE MAYO recommends a highly useful guide to the benefits and hazards of different approaches to immigration
The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT