The EU can’t stop Denmark’s migrant crackdown
Denmark has adopted a zero net-migration target
Migrant
Monday
Friday
Olaf Scholz’s immigration quagmire
The message to Scholz is clear: if he wants to toughen immigration policy, he’ll have to do it without the Greens
Saturday
125,000 Hong Kongers have come to the UK. Where are they?
More people have arrived in Britain from Hong Kong in the past three years than came from the Caribbean in the first ten years of the Windrush
Monday
Migrant smuggling is one of Lebanon’s last businesses
Ibrahim Lachine sold his mother’s furniture to pay for a place on a smuggler’s boat from Lebanon to Cyprus and left without saying goodbye. Stealing was, he admits, a bad thing to do, but the boat mafia wanted $700 (£500) and he couldn’t see any other way to get the money. He was 22 and hadn’t worked for three years. Food came from charities. Rent hadn’t been paid in months. Ibrahim leans back on a plastic chair, tall and angular in a black tracksuit and black running shoes. ‘We were very sad and very poor.’ Then he grins, a little embarrassed but mostly pleased with himself. He says he waited
Thursday
Boris’s NHS immigrant surcharge shake-up doesn’t go far enough
The Prime Minister has asked the Home Office to remove NHS workers and social care workers from the immigration health surcharge as soon as possible. As Katy Balls reported earlier today, frustrations were growing within the Tory party that healthcare workers could be clobbered with this fee as they work tirelessly to help British patients get through the Covid crisis. It seems Boris Johnson has listened to his backbenchers and u-turned. The fee will be waived for a range of health staff, from doctors and nurses to technicians and cleaners. This exemption is good news for workers in the healthcare sector, but it shouldn’t be the end of the policy review. This
