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Is Starmer’s New Immigration Policy A Shift To The Right?

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 By Cara Challand

This is an interesting move, as he is claiming the political territory that often belongs to right-wing parties. Can centre-left parties retain moral credibility on immigration while answering electorates demanding tougher controls?

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Opinion: Racism and Anti-Immigration sentiment is becoming more Normalised in the UK

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 By Mayumi Singh

For the past few years, I have felt an uneasy rise in anti-immigrant and asylum seeker sentiment. This sentiment has been around for

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Desensitising and Dividing: The Media’s Role in Encouraging Radicalism

October 20, 2025October 19, 2025 By Hugh Seear

Counter Terrorism Policing recently announced that one in five arrests on terrorism charges in the UK are of children under the age of

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This Week in PMQs: Immigration Loopholes and a Trade War

February 14, 2025February 14, 2025 By Phineas Horan

Less than a month in, UK is already beginning to feel the economic effects of Trump’s presidency.

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Trump Begins Deportations to Guantánamo Bay

February 8, 2025February 8, 2025 By Abby Uffindell

At the end of January, President Trump signed an executive order to open an immigrant detention centre at the US Naval base situated on Guantánamo

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Opinion: The British Migration Myth 

December 9, 2024February 7, 2025 By Millie Rowsell

On 28th November 2024, Sir Keir Starmer addressed Downing Street on immigration stating they will “crack down on any abuse of the visa

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The Controversial Effects of New Immigration Legislation in the UK

December 12, 2023January 25, 2024 By Tara Singh

Immigration into the UK has been a subject of much controversy amongst both the government and its citizens. The basis of the arguments

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Australia’s High Court Rules Indefinite Detention to be Illegal

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 By Maya Perera

On the 8th of November, a historic and ground-breaking decision from Australia’s High Court ruled that indefinite detention is illegal. Although the indefinite

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Opinion: The Channel Crossings demonstrate an essential failing in our system

November 14, 2022 By Daniel Bassett

On the 8th of November 2022, the BBC reported that a second hotel in the nearby city of Torbay was being used to

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