Colleague sends me this from the partner leave to remain application they are completing... I had not seen this before. Ask yourself, why would the Home Office need to know how your partner became British?

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

In London, around 50% of everyone sleeping rough is a migrant. If the Government really wants to halve rough sleeping, they’re gonna have to do something about their immigration policies that drive ppl onto the streets and stop them accessing help when they need it

"Ending the two-child limit is vital, but you cannot end child poverty while excluding children from support because of their parents' immigration status. Every child deserves the same chance to thrive." @josephinewy.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/news/2567585...

God forbid they let people actually affected by the issues being debated ask questions about the issues being debated

“moral mission”

The child poverty strategy we've waited 18 months for confirms that, actually, the Government is just fine with migrant children bearing the brunt www.gov.uk/government/p...

Today's Child Poverty Strategy leaves thousands of migrant children - 40% of all children in poverty - out in the cold. Every child deserves the same chance to thrive. Poverty is a political choice. The Govt's failure to act for all children falls short of the scale and urgency of the crisis.

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT

How many of the measures announced are going to benefit children in migrant families, who account for 40% of all children living in poverty in this country? And how many more are going to be driven into poverty by being made to wait 10, 15 or even 20 years for ILR now?

Poverty is a political choice

The Home Office has started taking action on cases of Syrian refugees with pending settlement applications. People are being sent letters saying they have 21 days to provide evidence as to why they should not be returned to Syria. Panic is spreading.

Riffat, who came to the UK from Pakistan, said: "I don’t want to feel like a temporary guest in the place where I spend my days serving others with everything I have. I just want stability. Respect. "A chance to build a future without waiting decade after decade to be trusted."

Just can’t wait to see how this ends. I think i’m most looking forward to the government-backed recruitment campaigns when the NHS starts to fall over because intl workers are tired of hearing that they are tearing this country apart & don’t want to wait 15 yrs for basic security

"A low-paid carer from Ghana has cancelled all the benefits she is legally entitled to, including the disability allowance one of her children receives, owing to fears about her immigration status after the policy changes announced by the home secretary." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

One of the important points in the updated House of Commons library paper on the settlement changes is they can be done in the immigration rules. So very little, if any, parliamentary scrutiny despite the changes fundamentally altering peoples' rights commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

The number of people migrating to the UK is down, again. Lower migration is bad for our economy, especially our already struggling public services. The economy getting worse means politicians scapegoat and blame migrants and refugees even more. It’s a doom loop where we’re all worse off.

This is it. No more needs to be said about migration policy and its role in our politics.

We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.

Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that." So why should migrant children?

The OBR says the rise in claims was linked to the cost of living crisis The way disabled people have been vilified over PIP, as if they were trying to play the system, was disgusting & shameful Hacks & commentators that engaged in the grotesque demonisation of disabled people should be ashamed.

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity

MIGRANTS ARE TAXPAYERS TOO GUYS. Making settlement harder to get is not the public money saving flex the Chancellor seems to think it is. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

After a year trying to persuade this government that migrant children also do not deserve to live in poverty, I can confirm that they know their policies cause poverty - especially for children - and they don’t care.

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers

The whole problem with current Labour is encapsulated right here in this paragraph. One hand tries to ameliorate child poverty while the other hand makes it worse. Some of us think immigrants and their children count. That they, too, are people. Some of us don’t.

🚨Making it harder for migrants to settle in the UK is yet another act of economic vandalism🚨 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Worth remembering given the proposed ILR changes are going to be announced today. A "consultation" by the Home Office is usually 'this is what we want to do, how can we implement it?' rather than 'these are the various options we are thinking about, which do you prefer and why?'.

Not many groups of migrants would be affected by a longer path to ILR if claiming benefits, since you normally can’t claim benefits unless you have ILR. Refugees and other humanitarian cases, primarily, assuming EU citizens covered by Brexit rules are exempt. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Today we’ll finally get some more detail about Govt plans to make it harder to settle in the UK (6 months after first announced) What we know already: - settlement will now take a decade to reach - costs will double - c£20k per adult over the decade www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Here’s a few thing the Home Secretary could do if she *actually* wanted to put asylum seekers on the same playing field as British citizens: ✅ give them the right to work from day 1 ✅ give them access to the social security system not below-poverty-level asylum support www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is there literally no-one else? Nothing against Burnham but there’s *hundreds* of Labour MPs in parliament… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brilliant thread here, pithily explaining how YET ANOTHER aspect of govt immigration policy is shafting families by pushing them into poverty and then keeping them there

As with so many of this government's policies, they're going to make people's lives more miserable AND they're not going to achieve what the government says they're going to. Everyone loses. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I think the answer is no?

2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood

How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action? I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.

An absolute 🤯 at every level

Which then takes you back into the familiar territory of pleasing nobody - winding up the left for a policy that potentially doesn’t make that much difference in practice

A masterclass in punching down. Guess what. It’s not gonna stop the boats. And it’s not going to win them an election But it is going to leave thousands of people unable to build their lives here, or feel like they belong. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

With most voter intention polls showing Labour haemorrhaging most votes to Greens, Lib Dems, hard to see why they’d do this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket. Here's why it's not going to work www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...

Why! Sorry, but why? Labour's anti-asylum, anti-immigration, policies are the antithesis of anything anyone who genuinely supports human rights should be defending. They're absolutely inhumane and condemnable. Anyone supporting them can't claim to be "progressive" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yes. Next question. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/as-no1...

What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".

This will leave people unable to put down roots, build community and live their lives here and guess what? REFORM WILL STILL BE MORE TRUSTED ON IMMIGRATION.

Remind me again what lessons were learned from Windrush? These people were actively encouraged to come here to fill yawning voids in our care system. They’re generally in poorly paid, precarious jobs where exploitation is rife. Now theyre being punished AGAIN

Show me one piece of evidence that suggests that this is going to work - either to the number of people making dangerous journeys to get her OR to the Labour party’s political fortune.