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Net UK visa numbers need to be at 200,000 a year says report during General Election Campaign

10:10 31/05/2017
A leading think tank says that net annual UK visa numbers need to be at 200,000 to avoid the collapse of the British economy, post-Brexit. Presumably many of these people will be employed by...

Immigration to grow UK population by 6m in next 25 years

16:51 12/11/2013
The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) says that the population of the UK is set to grow by nearly 10m over the next 25 years and calculates that 5.8m of that rise will be caused directly or...

New cross party group on immigration established in UK parliament

11:15 11/10/2012
A new cross-party parliamentary group focussing on immigration has been established in the UK parliament. The group is chaired by the former Labour MP and immigration minister Barbara Roche and has...