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Net migration figures are down by 49,000, but 54,000 extra British citizens chose to leave the UK. Is the Prime Minister really getting it right on migration?
Migrants from the EU contribute £2,300 more to the exchequer each year in net terms than the average adult, the analysis for the government has found. And, over their lifetimes, they pay in £78,000 more than they take out in public services and benefits - while the average UK citizen’s net lifetime contribution is zero.
The home secretary is said to have plans to cut European immigration by 80 per cent under stricter entry conditions after Brexit. Sajid Javid is expected to publish plans to end free movement and preferential access for EU migrants after December 2020 – which will see net immigration from Europe reduced to as little as 10,000 a year, according to the The Sunday Times.
Deal or no deal, here are the issues that need fixing by March 29.
Claims by Brexit campaigners 76 million Turks could come to the UK unless it left the EU were false, home secretary Sajid Javid has said.
Conservatives' pledge to end freedom of movement and drastically reduce net migration looms over businesses already suffering labour shortage.
More than 145,000 EU citizens leave UK as non-EU net migration hits highest level since 2004.
Report urges politicians to 'come clean' about consequences of ending free movement or risk 'creating the sort of conditions in Britain that helped Donald Trump become US president'. / Illegal immigration is likely to rise when Britain leaves the EU and freedom of movement ends, a new study has found.
'The idea that these people are somehow going to ruin our way of life seems to be completely wrong and misbegotten'. /
As the EU referendum grows ever closer, Lord Darzi, Elias Mossialos and colleagues seek to redress a lack of evidence on the role of the union on our health system.
Stockpiling ahead of Brexit was one of the main reasons for the Scottish economy growing.
The government must make it easier for Indians to come to Britain to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with one of the world’s fastest growing economies, a group of MPs have said.
India's finance minister has said that a free trade deal with Britain will take a "long time" and that no negotiations will start until the Brexit process has been completed.
Legal experts condemn ‘disgraceful and illegal manipulation of system’.
Boris Johnson is facing a backlash over his plans to fast-track visas for the world's leading scientists, as a Nobel laureate warned of turmoil for "many years" after a no-deal Brexit.
A policy paper in January warned it would take 'some time to implement' a new immigration system.
From cross-Channel transport disruption to public disorder – the predictions in the leaked document.
Migration experts say the UK cannot end freedom of movement from the EU on Brexit day because it has no system to work out who is legally in the country.
'The weak pound and the uncertainty over Brexit are likely to be prime explanations' for decline, think-tank says.
Even Leave supporters now say existing EU rules provide ‘enough control’ on migration from the continent.
Judge rules Data Protection Act clause denying them right to obtain records is not unlawful.
Industry experts say proposed skills- and salary-assessed system for workers will make it harder for tourism industry to recruit staff.
From the outside, nothing much has changed yet. From the inside, however, the UK has undergone a radical and at times ugly transformation. The June 2016 referendum has helped set off a chain of events that has impacted many aspects of life in the country.
The Labour leader suggested he would not seek to introduce a new immigration regime for EU citizens.
Victoria Atkins fails – four times – to answer the question and admits Conservatives do not yet have an immigration policy.