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Yvette Cooper today gave a practical and sensible speech on immigration. In the current political climate (where practicality, sense and immigration rarely come together), she deserves credit for this. Migration poses some genuinely…
This week’s census data showed that the UK is becoming more diverse than ever. Much of the debate around the statistics has been about immigration. That is an important discussion to have: the pace of immigration in the last decade has been…
As Labour seeks to elaborate its ‘One Nation’ approach to policy and politics, immigration raises a number of difficult questions. For many people, the UK’s public, political, and policy debate about immigration epitomises the precise…
In policy terms, Labour is facing its biggest challenge for a political generation. In order to respond to the ongoing economic crisis and the resultant constraints on public spending (not to mention the Arab Spring, the aftermath of the…
By Sarah Mulley The tensions inherent in the government's immigration policy have been highlighted during the Prime Minister's trip to India. Yesterday's comments from Vince Cable that he wanted the UK to have "as liberal an immigration…
By Sarah Mulley International development should be counted as one of Labour's biggest successes in government. The creation of the Department for International Development (DfID) and an increase of more than 140% in real terms aid spending…
