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During the pandemic last year, 23,000 UK applicants for nursing courses were turned down. And since 2010, more than half (348,000) of 650,000 UK applicants were turned away.
A SEVEN-WEEK open invitation to offer recommendations as part of an independent review of the Human Rights Act ended yesterday, in a measure that could be a pretext to making changes to the law. Except in cases where anonymity has been requested, the submissions are expected to be published on the government’s website in due course. The government’s announcement in December that it was launching a review of the UK Human Rights Act was met with some surprise and exasperation given the scale of other, greater priorities such as the coronavirus pandemic and its impacts. But the decision ...
4 Mar 2021 Priti Patel’s Home Office has reportedly failed to launch a single deportation flight for illegal migrants since the United Kingdom officially left the European Union’s institutions at the beginning of the year. So far this year, a record 587 boat migrants have been brought ashore by the authorities, with 66 illegals landing on Tuesday. This is over double the number that landed during the same time period last year, which stood at 246, according to the BBC. Following Brexit, the United Kingdom amended its immigration laws, meaning that migrants can no longer claim asylum if th...
Anti-immigrant think tank Migration Watch UK claims that UK visa overstayer numbers have doubled in past five years. Full story, here.
Woke warriors on the march? Don’t forget the bigotry of the ‘unwoke’ Kenan Malik © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP/Getty Images Want to rid an Oxford college of a statue of an imperialist? That’s “wokery”. Too many immigrants? Blame the woke. Insufficiently appreciative of the British empire? You’re in the “woke orthodoxy”. Want to strangle Andrew Neil’s new radio station even before it airs? That’s the “woke warriors”. Joe Biden in the White House? “The high priest of the cult of woke.” Suddenly everything in the world...