The UK Labour party is no exception. Public concern about large-scale immigration clearly contributed to its heavy defeat at the 2010 general election. Since then it has been slowly but surely hardening its stance on the issue, although this is by no means unprecedented: while the rise of ...
The result comes amid asurprisingly strong election performanceby Reform UK, which has a hardline stance on immigration and was born out of the Brexit Party. Exit polls indicate that the party could secure 13 parliamentary seats, having failed to win any in the 2019 election. Read more here...
Labour fights Farage with Trump tactics and a publicity blitz on immigration The fightback starts here. Labour is starting the working week with an onslaught on Nigel Farage's party on the issue that Reform UK voters care about most: immigration. An...
The government is going big on its attempts to crack down on illegal immigration today, with the Home Office releasing footage showing people being arrested during raids. One of Sir Keir Starmer's top team has been asked whether there are parallels with a prev...
If anything, the holidays provided more opportunities for irate, booze-fuelled Twitter rants. One particular object of ire was Jeremy Corbyn’spre-Christmas interviewin the Guardian, where he appeared to dash the hopes of many on the left that Labour would immediately become the party of remain....
The Standard (Feb 2024): “Muslim Vote group plans to ‘punish’ Labour party over Gaza stance” MEND (Muslim Engagement and development) (pdf):The power of the Muslim vote and Muslim voting patterns A Belgian academic paper (Azabar et al), published in Electoral Studies (vol 66, 2020) ...
In a move eerily reminiscent of Yevsektsiya attacks on the Bundists, JVL’s early blows are directed towards the current Jewish Labour Movement, as JVL attempt to take ‘Jewish’ control of the party. These same anti-Zionists even boycotted Habima Theatre, over ninety years since their ...
foreground stability and the economy amid the prospect of economic headwinds, with the latter expected to focus on housing, the cost of living and public services – as well as the risk to the economy and how it would deal with major changes if the United States adju...
Also, the EU's positions on immigration correlated with its Lisbon Agenda and the goal to become the world's most competitive economy in 2010: '(...) this [Blue Card] legislation aims to make Europe a player on the emerging global labour market, enhancing its competitiveness and luring ...
military forces abroad as well as supporting regime change in Syria and the bombing of that country. Indeed, Umunna’s pro-intervention stance is so well defined that former U.K. Prime Minister and pro-interventionist Tony Blaironce promotedUmunna to be the future leader of the Labour party. ...