News Round-Up
18 June 2025
Voters are increasingly worried about immigration as the scale of Tory failure on the issue becomes apparent, but not enough to support the politicians who will actually do something about it, it appears.
A civil servant at the Home Office has said that his colleagues would "ring the mental health services to check in on my sanity" if he were ever to propose ways of cutting immigration.
The Supreme Court has ruled against Rishi Sunak's Rwanda migrants scheme in a major blow to the Prime Minister after Suella Braverman warned he has no credible Plan B stop the boats.
In a brutal resignation letter, Suella Braverman has accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of having "manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver" on key policies and said he is "incapable of doing so".
On Monday, negotiators from the German federal and state Governments met to hammer out a solution to the migration crisis, but what they came up with is little but empty words, says Eugyppius.
Every Parliament for the last 30 years has had a mandate to cut immigration. Add a referendum result and it's the largest democratic mandate for any measure in modern history. So when will it happen, asks J Sorel.
It's time, says Aditya A, to crack down on graduate visas to Indian students not at the top universities. "Allowing them to come even though they take Mickey Mouse degrees and are not here to study anyway is perilous."
The Dutch Government has collapsed after failing to agree even minimal restrictions to chain migration for asylum seekers. Is Europe becoming ungovernable?
The unsayable truth about the UK housing crisis is that prices are so high because demand is strong, and demand is strong because the UK has welcomed 10 million migrants in 25 years, says Lionel Shriver.
Pope Francis has told millennials to stop being "selfish and egotistical" and to start families instead of having pets. Philip Pilkington agrees, adding that immigration is a Ponzi scheme that cannot solve the crisis.
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