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A hostile takeover?

26 July 2016 / Katie Newbury
Issue: 7710 / Categories: Opinion , Immigration & asylum , Human rights
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Katie Newbury reflects on the impact of the UK’s recent & future hostile migration environment

    • New Prime Minister Theresa May was one of our longest serving home secretaries. In that role she oversaw significant changes to the Immigration Rules and the framework within which immigration law is practiced.
    • She has expressed concern over the level of migration to the UK and indicated a wish to further limit both the numbers of migrants coming to the UK and the ways in which those in need of international protection can remain.
    • Following a referendum where immigration took centre stage and with an on-going refugee crisis in Europe, it is timely to review Theresa May’s impact on UK immigration to date and consider what the future may hold now she is prime minister.

    “Britain does not need net migration in the hundreds of thousands every year… So there is no case, in the national interest, for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade.” Theresa May, Conservative Party Conference, October 2015

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